The 28 Day Forgiveness Challenge — Day 16
I’m a basically good person.
If you buy the premise that you are basically good, you will miss the grace of God. If you believe you are fundamentally good, you don’t need grace.
This mindset forces you to rationalize, defend and try to prove to others that indeed you are basically good. Some would call this perfectionism.
I believed I was basically good. Before fully embracing the grace of God, I tried to spin my past in such a way that would put me in the best light possible. Defending my fragile ego was hard work. It was an endless task.
I missed out on truly knowing and experiencing God’s forgiveness.
The truth is that in and of ourselves, we are not basically good. Jesus was very clear on this point: “No one is good except God alone” (Mark 10:18).
Our hearts, as Jeremiah wrote, are wicked and beyond cure. But not beyond the cure of God’s grace. God in His goodness reached you in Christ and forgave your sins. He changed your status from sinner to child of God.
This is truth that will set you free.
Forgiveness Challenge #16 – Do you spend time trying to convince yourself or others that you are “basically a good person”? Are you willing to accept the truth of Mark 10:18 and fully embrace Romans 4:5?
“And to the one who does not work but believes in[a] him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,” (Romans 4:5).
Thank you for this most powerful message of the need for us to understand Gods amazing grace. Gods Grace tears down the walls that the enemy has built around our hearts and minds and truly sets us free.
So blessed to read this message . I thank God for all your are doing in your ministry. You have helped me so much to know and understand the true character of our precious Lord & Savior.
Shalom
Thank you, This is a great reminder, to remember I am not good, God, Yeweh is the only one good froever and ever, I am nothing more that a participator in his righteousness
John tells us that anyone that denies that they sin is a liar. I know that there is nothing good in my flesh, but I also walk by faith that the righteous on lives in me and has clothed me with his righteousness and that is how God sees me.
Col 1:22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
Praise God!