Thursday, June 25, 2009

We are God's Sons and Daugthers!!!!

We are God's sons and daughters, eternally adopted to share in His inheritance with Christ. Orphans live in fear; they fight and connive to survive because they are not secure. But as His children we are already totally acceptable to God and cannot improve our standing with Him through our works.

It is wrong, therefore, to look at life as a struggle to earn our Father's favor. Our acceptability is based solely on the work of Christ, not our own works, no matter how great we may think they are! We are free to walk with God because He will never leave us or forsake us.

However, it is often the case that we associate our acceptability to God with How involved we are in the church's ministries. We figure, if we are doing more, then we are more pleasing to God. Nothing could be further from the truth. - Eric Wallace page 189