One of the truths of the Christian life is that you will not grow in holiness until you grow in grace. That is you will never progress in the Christian life until you truly begin to understand the grace that saved us. As a Christian, you not only are called to repent of your sins, you are also called to repent of your good works. The Bible teaches us that our righteousness is but filthy rags in the sight of God. Most Christians understand that verse to mean that we cannot earn our salvation, which is true. But most Christians somehow think that our righteousness is transformed after we trust Christ for our salvation. We work to make God pleased with us. What we fail to understand is that even after we are a saved our works are still filthy rags. We grow in holiness but we are only as holy as a saved sinner can be. That is our holiness and our good works in this world are still tainted with sin.
The truth of the matter is that we cannot work as a believer to make God pleased with us. God is already pleased with us because He sees Christ’s righteousness in us. When we come to comprehend how gracious God is towards us in Christ, we begin to fall in love with Him. As we love Him and become obsessed with Him, then we grow in holiness. And as we grow in holiness, we grow in our understanding of how gracious God is. Think About It.
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