The Good News! (A Conclusion to "The Juxtaposition")
The moment I clicked "Publish Post" my phone rang. Dear Hubby on the other end asked how I was doing, to which I promptly answered, "Sinful, Hopeless, in need of Christ." I went a whole day after that feeling convicted, like a failure as a Christian, knowing that I, to refer to my own pen, would never "really want holiness." I am a failure. I am, dare I say?, a black-hearted sinner. As I chose, almost 24 hours later, to really confess this to my Savior, it hit me - The Gospel! This is The Gospel! Not that I would reach a holy state of my accord and effort, wanting with my whole heart to serve Him, " but [that] God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses , made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurabl...