Sept.06.02: Light For The Day - "Insufficient Funds"

-- Romans 4:3-5 (NIVUS)
"3 What does the Scripture say?
"Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
4 Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation.
5 However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who
justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness."

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If Christ had not covered us with grace, each of us would be overdrawn on [our heavenly bank] account. When it comes to goodness we would have insufficient funds. Inadequate holiness. God requires a certain balance of virtue in our account, and it's more than any of us has alone. Our holiness account shows insufficient funds, and only the holy will see the Lord: what can we do?

We could try making a few deposits. May be if I wave at my neighbor
or compliment my husband or go to church next Sunday.
I'll get caught up. But how do you know when you' ve made enough? ....

If you are trying to justify your own statement, forget ever having peace. ... You are trying to justify an account you can't justify. ...
"Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?
It is God who justifies." (Rom. 8:33).

-- Max Lucado
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-- Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIVUS)
"8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -
and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God -
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are God's workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to do."

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