Hello everyone. I love this writing. It
explains the one truth that we simply must understand and
receive. Much love to all of you!
David Wilkerson Today
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012
IN CHRIST
by David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011]
I believe that justification by faith is the foundational
truth of
Christianity. You cannot know true rest and peace until you
are convinced you
can never be made right in God's eyes by your own works of
righteousness.
If you don't understand the perfect righteousness of Christ
that is yours by
faith, you will lead a life of toil and sweat. You'll spend
your days trying to
please God through legalistic, hopeless attempts to
establish your own
righteousness. But the truth is, you'll never have any
righteousness to bring
to the Lord!
No doubt you are familiar with the passage in Isaiah that
says all our
righteousness is as filthy rags in God's sight (see Isaiah
64:6). This does not
mean God despises our good works — not at all. We should do
good works, but if
you think your good works merit your salvation, that they
allow you to stand
holy before God, then they are nothing but filthy rags!
You may feel good because of the good works you do and even
enjoy a moment of
victory whenever you resist temptation. You feel righteous,
that God's favor is
on you.
The next day, however, you fail. You fall back into a sin
and suddenly you lose
all your joy. You think the Lord is angry with you and
wonder if you have lost
your salvation.
It is a roller-coaster ride of emotional highs and lows — of
up-and-down,
hot-and-cold, sin-and-confess — according to how good or bad
you think you
have been on any given day. It's a life of misery because
you are trying to
please God in your flesh!
Beloved, no righteousness of the flesh will ever stand
before God. Even the
best people among us, the most moral, godly saints, have
fallen short of God's
glory. None of us can ever be accepted in the Father's eyes
by our good works.
We are accepted by Him only as we are in Christ!
"For ye are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28). When
we turn to Jesus
with saving, self-emptying faith, we become one in Christ.
Being "in Christ"
means God credits Jesus' righteousness to us. All our sins
are washed away
because of His work, not ours!
Read this devotion online:
http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/17698?src=devo-email