Myth, 126

 ~ God Will Grade On The Curve ~

 

Myth  ~  God will grade me on a curve – just like some of my school teachers.

 

Reality  ~  Righteousness is the standard everyone is unrighteous in God’s eyes.   

 

“The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.  They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one” (Psalm 14:2-3).

 

“But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe.  For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus” (Romans 3:21-26).

 

Comment  ~  The only way we can become righteous in the eyes of God is by being born again through salvation obtained by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary. 

 

“‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ says the Lord, ‘though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).

 

When that happens then from that point forward The Father sees us covered with the righteousness of His Son.

 

Scripture  ~  “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride [the Christian Church) adorns herself with her jewels” (Isaiah 61:10).

 

Quotes  ~  Heaven is not an earned reward but rather a gift to the guilty.”

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

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