Bible Verse of the Day Wednesday August 16th, 2023

Psalm 62:7 My salvation and my honor depend on God he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

Our lives now and what our lives will be in the future, along with all our life’s achievements of any substance, are in the hands of God. We will never achieve anything of significance without His Blessing upon our lives. We cannot achieve lasting honor for ourselves without his blessing. We cannot secure our future or safety without his protection and acceptance. The core of all of our accomplishment and triumph depends on our willingness to surrender our lives to God completely and totally.

The Cross is the achievement and triumph of Christ, not you and I. When we depend on God doing the work, this is grace, when we do the work, this is self-righteousness. The righteousness Christ gives us is relative to God’s absolute justice and character. In other words, God declares us as righteous as He is because of the Cross. Those that attempt to live according to the law put minimal emphasis on the sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary and more on themselves. To those focused on the Cross and not on themselves, the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross means everything to them.

Everything we are and will ever accomplish is because of what God did in and through Christ Jesus on the Cross. God sees our identity in Christ. We hold the same standing as the Lord Jesus in God’s eyes. Everyone that places their faith in the finished work of Jesus on Calvary stands perfect in God’s sight (Ephesians 1:3). The Wisdom of God is unachievable by a human method. God’s wisdom involves virtue and morality, sanctification, and salvation. It is wisdom from an alternate viewpoint, God’s viewpoint. God’s thoughts or knowledge are characterized by what He did in Christ Jesus, his birth, life, death, and resurrection.

The righteousness by which God declares a believer righteous is not because of anything in us. It is something God does for us and puts into us. It is the work of the Lord Jesus on the Cross of Calvary. Righteousness is not from us. Our righteousness and God’s righteousness are entirely dissimilar manners of righteousness. They are not two segments of the same righteousness. There is no scale of righteousness in humanity that God will accept. God delivers salvation separately from the principles of society; He functions on His guidelines.

Humans cannot tell God, “I have done most of this myself, but You need to make up the difference.” On the contrary, we must eliminate the part we believe we accomplished to be acceptable to God and leave it all in God’s hands. We must come to the Cross alone to receive forgiveness.