For some time in my life I have struggled with living in God's grace, I was actually trying earn God's grace by being a good person. Thankfully I am now realizing the folly of my thinking and God recenlty showed me these scriptures on the website http://www.newlivingtranslation.com/default.asp.
Ephesians 2 8-10 says God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God.9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.10 For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Thankfully I am now realizing the folly of my thinking and God showed me these scriptures. Here is what they mean to me. God saved us by his grace, undeserved favor, when we believed that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, He saved us from eternal damnation because Jesus is the way, the truth and the light, and no one can get to the Father without Jesus. His salvation is a gift, and without it we would go to hell. No one can save himself by doing good deeds. So therefore we can not take credit for getting to heaven.
It goes on to say that we are God's masterpiece, and that He created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we could do the good things He planned for us long ago. Now, God created the heavens, the stars, all those beautiful images we get to look at thanks to the hubble telescope, have you ever looked at some of the things that thing has taken pictures of? Try it, these pictures will blow your mind. Do a google image search on hubble. You and I would look upon these things and say what a masterpiece this is. God called us His masterpiece! I looked up the definition of masterpiece and it is
1. An outstanding work of art or craft.
2. The greatest work, as of an artist.
So a masterpiece is an artists greatest work. God made a lot of things and they are all beautifull, but none of them measure up to His masterpiece, we are the greatest thing that God has ever made. Reflect on that for a while when you start to say things like God doesn't love me, how could God love someone like me? My friend, God loves you.
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