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Sunday, September 14, 2014

How Good Is Good

This great question rises to the top once again.  As Christian’s go, the quest for “good enough” is like running a race in a round building. 

If you don’t claim to wear the Christian label, perhaps you have thrown up your hands because you never felt the “standards” were reachable.

Let me help you with some of these quandaries. 

I started a new career path recently as a personal banker.  There are over thirty tutorials I’m required to take, and the passing score is 80.  What if, in the pursuit of God, we had to score an 80 or greater on the “good” meter?  What would happen if we score a 78, or even 58?  Maybe we’re so far from good we can only muster a 42.  What then?

Just how good is good?  What does God do with average Joe’s and Jackie’s?  What if, for whatever reasons, we feel we are below average in God’s scheme of things? 

Hang on.  There is some great news ahead.

The critical piece in this race for good and better is this:  GRACE!  The grace of God is available and abundant for the best of the best and the worst of the worst.  Just listen to this.

The wages of sin - death, but God’s gift is eternal life In Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:23

And another:

By grace you and I are saved through faith.  This is not because of anything we can do on our own.  This is a free gift from God.
Ephesians 2:8

And one final thought:
This is the testimony:  God gives us eternal life in His Son Jesus Christ.  If you have the Son, you have life.
I John 5:11

As I read these passages again, I see no mention of a price.  There is no laundry list of “things to do”.  We ACCEPT this free gift. 

Here is what is missing:
We don’t have to bow to the east.
We don’t have to wear sandals.
We don’t have to earn a bunch of merit badges.

Here is the only qualification:  have the Son – Jesus Christ.

And if you presently don’t have the Son, just ask.  ASK!  Ask him to come and be with you, abide in you. 

How good is good?

Good enough when you have the Son!


P Michael Biggs
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