Minute Musings...I'm Free

Have you ever put a lot effort into a project only to find out that it wasn't good enough? 
It failed to meet the expectations of others because you didn't have what you needed to
make it work on your own.  It is a very humbling experience to realize that no matter
how hard you tried, you failed, you were unable to accomplish your goals. 

 

Do you realize that this is the problem we encounter with God?  We try in our own
strength to meet His expectations, and we fail over and over again.  Why?  Because
man cannot appease a Holy God.  And there we have it...HOLY.  We come in our
unrighteousness before a Holy God and expect Him to accept us!  But it doesn't work
that way!

We read in Hebrews 10:31  "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God."   We will have the wrath of a Holy, righteous God fall upon us if we try to please
Him with our attempts of holiness.  However, God commands us in 1 Peter 1:16,
"Be ye holy:  for I am holy."  So, what are we suppose to do?  I want you to notice
something very important here;  God will never tell us to do something that He does
not provide us with a way to do!  A way has been provided for us to fulfill Gods command
to be holy...but it has nothing to do with us!

There was a night long ago when the Children of Israel had followed God's directions
and had sacrificed a lamb without blemish,
and put its blood upon the doorposts of their
houses.  God passed through Egypt that night,
and judgement fell upon those homes that did
not have the blood covering them. 

Exodus 12:13  "And when I see the blood, I
will pass over you."  This is a beautiful picture
of the perfect Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, God's
perfect Son.  He died on Calvary, shedding His
precious blood.  Just as the shed blood of the
lamb that long ago night on the doorposts of the
houses, spared the occupants the judgement of God upon them;  so the blood of Jesus Christ,
the LAMB of God covers us, and spares us the wrath of a just and holy God!  2 Corinthians
5:21  "For He (God) hath made Him (Jesus) to be sin for us, Who knew no sin;  that we
might be made the righteousness of God in Him."

How about you today?  Have you been going along, trying with your own attempt at
holiness to please God?  I'm sorry to have to tell you, that you will always fail in this
endeavor. To please and obey God we must do things His way.  Repent of our sin and 
accept God's free gift of salvation which was bought by the blood of the Lamb.  When
God looks at you, He will not see sin, He will see the blood...and His judgement will
pass over you.

1 Peter 1:18 & 19  "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation (lifestyle) received by tradition
from your fathers;  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot."

My soul has been set free by the blood of the Lamb!

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