Jesus isn't just the friend, the therapist, the CEO, neighbor, and the superintendent of people. He is also the Savior. This is one gigantic term. We are all in this lostness together and it is in the Son of God that we can experience our foundness. Never is it our accomplishment. Neither is it our social goodness. No. Jesus paid a price...one heavy fee...to rescue us from ourselves.
I continually read of those who have or are failing in life. Too many reference such a category of individuals as "they"; they need, they should, they seem, and they ought. The accusation may be dead on. Yet, the frailty of such is that every time that there is a "they", there is also factually a "me" that carries the same fallen nature.
We can't do good life on our own, regardless of strong effort. We are far too weak to pull it off. Yet we do try. When the battle is found to be of our self-effort, we leap immediately into the false zone of living by comparison. This is always a dead-end alley...so the Word says.
So, know that there is gigantic hope for the severely flawed...and we are all in that mix. I am the chiefest of failure. Jesus lives to save! He alone is our hope...but what a solid, true, real, authentic, lasting hope!
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