Pressure to be a good community group leader and not to fail people. The feeling that I don't have much integrity with who I am at church and who I am in private.
Pressure to be a good husband. To not grow slack in my love for my wife and to be a man in her eyes.
Pressure to be a good follower of Jesus. The standard is Jesus, which is perfection. I realize that the standard has been met for me, by Jesus, on the cross. But my weak human mind still thinks I have to attain some level of Christianity before God will approve of me.
Why is that? Why is it so difficult to believe you are forgiven, righteous, dearly loved?
Romans 8:1 says
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 6 is all about how our old man is dead and has been replaced by a righteous one.
And sometimes that means a lot to me. Other times I gloss over it and stop on verses that give a command and think, "I'll never be able to live that way," and "I sure am failing in that area".
The whole thing about Christianity is that we are forgiven isn't it? Does anyone else find the most basic principle often the hardest to believe?
No comments:
Post a Comment