You are right (but first you were wrong)

A message to my spiritual family, 

“For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”

John 3:17

You've heard the saying "the healthy don't need a doctor, only the sick do".  Feeling "healthy" or fine can actually be detrimental for a Christian.  That sounds bad, but hear me out. 

Do you know that there's something wrong with you?  

Or do you find it much easier to find something wrong about other people?  

It's easier to blame others while justifying ourselves and we do that naturally all day long!  

It's not because other people aren't wrong, they probably are very wrong!  But we neglect to see the extent of our own wrong because everyone has a deep longing to be right....to be righteous.  We were made in the image of God so deep down we all desire to be true--even if we get there by making others more wrong.  

So, HOW do you get to being "right"?  

Is it by a sense of your own understanding or logic?  By educating yourself?

Is it because you worked on being "right" and "good"? 

Or do you get there by you realizing you're actually wrong and Jesus's gift of His being right is now yours to take. 

Just. Like. That.  No work.  

Just freebie righteousness. 

It matters HOW you get to your sense of "right."

Jesus shows us the ONLY way to truth, to being right, to obtain righteousness.  TO FREEDOM.  

That is by believing in Him and the gospel which says that we were dead in our own sin when Christ died to take our sins away and in return put His obedience/rightness on us for free.  (Romans 5:8) 

So if you believe in Jesus it means you believe that the only reason you're now true and right is because 

Jesus and you made an exchange: 

your lies and disobedience to God 

(what He got from you) 

for His truth and obedience/rightness 

(what you got from Him.). 

This gift means it's free....there's no work involved.  You just receive it.  

You know you've received this when you realize you can't even judge anyone anymore because the "right" that you are is not your own, and you yourself were not judged by God prior to recieving it.  Jesus took your place of being judged by God and forsaken.  Now you get what Jesus had which is adoption into God's family as a child of God. 

Your identity as being right is grounded in a gift not a sense of "I earned this."  Which means you are aware that everyone else is on the same plane as you.  

"So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 8:31-32

Do you know this gospel truth for yourself?  That you are actually more wrong than you think?  That you actually benefit from realizing how wrong you are, and that being wrong leads you to see the truth that will set you free? 

As children we are wrong and we are right, and it matters HOW we understand to be one and the other.  

Be washed in truth today family, it is what will unlock so much of your joy! 

Jmegrey