First, none of us are good.
There is not one person, excluding Jesus, that has ever lived on this
Earth that is good enough to deserve salvation.
The thought that anyone could ever achieve a level of goodness that
could elevate them to salvation is preposterous. The Bible says that none of us are good. I think that pretty much sums up our
goodness. Isaiah wrote that our righteousness
is like “filthy rags”. I won’t take the
time to go into detail of what that entails, but trust me; it is not a good
picture.
Second, we are dead.
Paul told the church at Ephesus that we all “dead in our trespasses and
sins”. If we are dead spiritually, what
we need is to be made alive spiritually.
Have you ever known a dead person raise them self from the dead? NO!
That has never nor will ever happen.
If we are dead, we are dead. We
can’t do anything about us being dead.
We were physically born spiritually dead.
Well, that leads to the question, “Is anyone saved?” Absolutely!
However, we are only saved by the grace of God. It has nothing to do with anything that we
have done that might could have earned that salvation, but rather it is the
free gift of God’s grace found in Jesus Christ.
Paul writes in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace you have been saved
through faith. And this is not of your
own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may
boast.” God grants us the grace and
faith to believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord therefore, we are
saved.
It is very comforting to know that it is not up to my
righteous ability to save myself. If
that were the case I couldn’t sleep. I
would be constantly worrying if I had accomplished enough to earn
salvation. So, the next time the devil
whispers in your ear that you aren’t good enough to be saved, make sure you
tell him that he is right. Then tell him
you aren’t depending upon yourself to be saved.
Salvation is a work of God.
