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 The Acceptance/Performance Treadmill – Part 1 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' God loves you as much on your bad days as He does on your good ones. Really? How is that possible? Because His acceptance of you is based on your position (in Christ) not your condition (in the flesh). Listen: "For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His (not our) goodness]" (2 Corinthians 5:21). At Calvary God took every sin you could ever commit and laid it upon His Son. When you come to the cross as a sinner, He takes all of Christ's righteousness and wraps you up in it. From that point on He sees you only one way - in Christ! How liberating! Liberating - yes! Because now we see that our worth is not based on what we do, but on who we are in Christ. God actually assigned value to you by allowing Jesus to die for you. 'But I cannot believe that God does not care about what I do!' You are right! God wants you to do good works - but He does not want you to depend on them; He wants you to do them out of love for Him. Once you understand your position, who you are in Christ, you can get off the acceptance/performance treadmill and begin doing the right things for the right reasons. Prayer |
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