Why God Accepts You (1)

'...Approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him....' 2 Corinthians 5:21 AMP       

    

Giving God the Glory! Thankful for a life changing day as Josephina had been sick for over two weeks and yesterday during worship God healed her!!! I'm always amazed at how much our God loves us and accepts us just were we are in this life. Thanks to Dan Taylor for bringing the word yesterday and his heartfelt message for Africa. I feel led today to share  about why God Accepts you, for you. We think that when we have a bad day or week he somehow forgets us. there is one thing you must accept; God loves and accepts you as much on your bad days as He does on your good ones. In a performancebased society, that's easy to forget. But you mustn't! God's acceptance is based on your standing in Christ, not the state of your life at a given time. 'For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His (not our) goodness].' (2 Corinthians 5:21 AMP) Stop thinking about your relationship with Christ as a performance. Think of the cross as a trading post. There God took every sin you'd ever commit and laid it upon Jesus. And the moment you place your trust in Christ, God takes all of Christ's righteousness and wraps you up in it. From that point on, He sees you only one way - in Christ. How liberating! Liberating, because now you realize that your worth isn't based on what you do but on who you are in relationship to Christ. God actually assigned value to you by allowing Jesus to die for you. 'But I can't believe that God doesn't care about what I do.' You're right! And your rewards in Heaven will be based on your stewardship here on earth. God wants you to do good works, but He doesn't want you to depend on them for salvation; He wants you to do them out of love for Him. Once you understand your position, who you are in Christ, you begin doing the right things for the right reasons. You are loved...