We serve an Awesome God! He has been generous in putting us on this accomodating, greenish-bluish planet. He makes us feel like the world spins around us...that the sun shines for us. So, not surprisingly, we often think it's all about us. When in fact, the rest of God's wonderful creation twinkles, shines and waves knowing that it is all about God! IN Matthew 18 following verse 21:
Jesus tells a story showing how God has forgiven man of sin and how man is to forgive his fellow man. Ten thousand bags of gold represents a debt this is un-payable( literally millions of dollars that the man did not have, and no way of procuring). The man was doomed. Man is un-redeemable as far as man is concerned. That is a hopeless situation! All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.—Isa.64:6
It doesn’t say our sin is filthy rags. Our righteousness is filthy rags. There is this fallacy among mankind: we think we are innocent. but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”---Gen.2:17 Let's delete a false assumption: it is this assumption that some people are innocent. Not true! We are all guilty of sin before God. So, when we say something about a person being innocent, it’s not true. No man is innocent before God. There is none righteous. This is the plight of man due to disobedience. For the wages of sin is death---that is the ruling. The 10 Commandments merely show that no man is able to be righteous. However, as we read on, a merciful God has provided a rescue plan. Don't revel in the idea that you are good, because you are not. You and I are in need of a Savior. In God's great mercy and grace He allows us to walk through our daily journey not dwelling on our guilt. Of course, the only way to be truly free of this guilt is to put on the righteousness of Christ. Study God's Word this year. Understand your standing.
