I remember seeing a bumper sticker on a guitar case once that said, “Jesus is coming, look busy!” That sticker made me sad, because at the bottom of that light-hearted joke is a very deep misunderstanding of everything Jesus was about. Most people think that in order to please God or go to heaven, we have to ‘be good enough.’ The assumption is that we have to go to church, give our money, read our Bible, say our prayers, keep the ten commandments and toss in some miscellaneous good deeds in order to meet the standards that God has laid out for us. The problem with that line of thinking is that none of us are good enough to meet God’s standard! We all fell short of that standard. That’s why Jesus came. He came to meet the standard for us and then give His life in our place to pay for all of our wrong, offering us a relationship with God and a place in heaven for free! Without having to earn it, all we have to do is want it. I love Jesus because when folks asked Him what work God required of them, He said, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”
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