God Thinking Pre-empt 14

"Most people have never experienced peace with God.

And it's not because it isn't available

Nor is it necessarily because you do not want it

Nor is it because in the general scheme of things you don't deserve it

You don't experience the peace of God because you are still trying to work your way into God's good grace.

You are still trying to pay for or make up for your lack of devotion to God.

• You are still trying to cover up for lost time and commitment to your heavenly Father
• You are still trying to pay for your indiscretion and sin.
• You are still trying to make it right

And yet there is nothing you could ever do that will change God's mind toward you.

There's nothing you can do to make yourself worthy

• There's no amount of penance
•  No amount of retribution
• No acts of mercy
• No gift big enough

There's nothing you can offer God of equal value to His Son.

Christians are frustrated because they don't feel worthy.  This is a lie of the enemy.  You should expect the Jew and the Hindu, the Muslim and the Taoist to work hard to find peace with God, but the Christian?

There is no peace to be found apart from what God gives freely through Christ.

Excerpt from God Thinking Pre-empt by Keith C. Powell copyright 2012