You were weighed but you were found
wanting
Ps 143:2 Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For
in Your sight no one living is righteous.
Think of that, muse on that, ponder on that. NO ONE LIVING IS
RIGHTEOUS IN THE EYES OF GOD. That's you and me and everybody for :
".....all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," [Romans
3:23]
we all have sinned at least once. We have not reflected in our
lives God's glory.
What is the glory of God referred to in this verse?
For sure it refers to God's moral attributes. it
refers to God's manisfested excellent moral attributes. God is
holy, righteous, good and etc. But have we been righteous and holy
all the time or are there times wherein we fall short of holiness
and righteousness?
Surely we can recall times of unholiness and righteouosness on our
part right? During times like that we 'fall short of the glory of
God".
"For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God," [Romans 3:22-23]
that's why in God's eyes NO ONE LIVING IS RIGHTEOUS. And where wil
the unrighteous be at eternity? lake of fire. But you have not
sinned so gravely like Hitler?!!!!? You have not sinned so low as
the female prostitutes?!!!? You have not been addicted to drugs
like the others?!!!? and many other man-made standards of
righteousness.
You see the standard of righteousness is not other people. It's
God. God standard is perfect righteousness. Do you have it or not?
I don't know how much movie tickets costs now it's been a long time
since i have not watched a movie flick, but Superman's coming and i
think i will watch that [I wrote this in the other forum when
Superman was still in the offing].
supposing we go to the movie house to watch the movie. And when we
got there we learned that movie tickets costs 6$ each. You sink
your hand into your pockets and found out you only have 4$. I
fished for my wallet and found out to my dismay i only have
1$.
Question: which of us will go in? None of us. the 'standard' is 6$.
I may have lesser than you but still the same, we fall short of the
price of the movie ticket which is 6$.
The standard is perfect righteousness. How much do you have
compared to Hitler? Maybe you have a lot morally than him but the
essential question is: are you up to the standard? Assuredly not.
You are a sinner. You need a righteousness outside of yourself. you
need a Savior.
Ro 4:25 who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was
raised because of our justification.
See that word 'justification'? that means perfect righteousness.
it's complete and perfect and eternal righteousness. Jesus Christ
came to the world to die for sinners and rose again so that sinners
may be justified [perfectly righteous in the eyes of God].
what you need to do is trust in that work of salvation alone.
Accept Christ's righteousness NOW my frined. Rely solely on what
Christ did for you.
it's simple because it's a gift from God. it's simple because it
came from the mercy and kindness of God to helpless and hopeless
sinners like us.
Note: you may have heard this message over and over again. You have
become wearied by it. question is: what are you doing with this
truth my friend? Have you run to Christ? The more you delay and put
off recieving the perfect rightousness of Christ through the offer
of the gospel, the more your heart will become hardenend.
The Israelites were wearied by Isaiah's monotonous preaching. It's
always the same message they already know over and over again. They
complained and even ridiculed Isaiah: "This guy Isaiah is teaching
us elementary truths. What!!?? are we little kids just over our
milk days?!!!?
[Isa 28:9 "Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to
understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just
drawn from the breasts?]--->it should be BREAS...but the forum
censors such words.
His line of teaching is boooring. Line by lIne. precept by
precept......it's sooooo booooring.
[Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a
little."]
God made His message through Isaiah simple and easy to understand
that even a little child could comprehend it. In the end, they will
not have to complain to God that they did not clearly understood
His message for God through Isaiah clearly, over and over again,
repeated the simple message of repentance to them.
God is saying to you now my friend: repent and rely on Christ alone
for salvation.
Life is short my friend, think about eternity. Where will you spend
it?
