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God’s Blessing Does Not Depend on Our Performance

by Marci Ferrell
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God’s grace through Christ is greater than our sin, even on our worst days. @mferrell

Let me throw two scenarios by you:

Good Day:

You wake up, get your coffee, have your time in the Word and prayer with the Lord. Get your family breakfast, start school with the kids. The whole day falls into place beautifully, and at the end of the day a neighbor stops by, and you have an opportunity to share the gospel with her. As you start to talk, you pray silently and ask the Lord to help you share with her and work in her heart.

Bad Day:

Today is opposite the first. You wake up late, no time in the Word and prayer, you don’t have milk for breakfast, you're short with the kids, and you're dealing with a lot of guilt over your day by the end of it. The doorbell rings a neighbor stops by, and you have an opportunity to share the gospel with her. Would you enter into it the same way as you did the prior day?

What would your level of confidence be on a good day vs. the bad day?

Do you believe God can bless you in the midst of what you would consider bad spiritual day?

A reminder again, God’s blessing does not depend on our performance. 

How do we deal with the bad day? We need to go back to the Cross and fix our eyes on Jesus. Confess areas of sin to the Lord but be reminded of Romans 8:1 – “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” You at that moment are reminded that it’s only because of Jesus suffering the punishment you deserve that you are enabled to share the gospel with this neighbor. Jerry Bridges reminds us that God’s grace through Christ is greater than our sin, even on our worst days.

God’s grace through Christ is greater than our sin, even on our worst days.Click to Tweet

Charles Spurgeon used to pray one sentence before he entered the pulpit –“God be merciful to me a sinner” Luke 8:13. That about covers it!

If we look at our good day, we can begin to think that God only works through those who are good or have done things that seem pleasing to the Lord. So how good is good enough? We can’t reach the standard of perfection Jesus did. 

This scenario reminds us that no matter our performance, we are fully reliant on God’s grace, that is His undeserved favor on those who deserve His wrath. 

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ ~ Galatians 6:14

The Good News of the Gospel is God's grace is available on our bad days and our good days. We sin every day in thought, word, deed, and motives. Our spiritual lives benefit greatly from being reminded of the gospel every day. 

“We are saved by grace, and we are to live by grace every day of our Christian lives.” ~Jerry Bridges

I know the question of obedience is going to come in here, so I want to quote Jerry Bridges from his book:

Does the fact that God has forgiven us all our sins mean that He no longer cares whether we obey or disobey? Not at all. The Scripture speaks of our grieving the Holy Spirit through our sins (Ephesians 4:30). And Paul prayed that we “may please God in every way” (Col 1:10). We grieve God, and we please God. Clearly, He cares about our conduct and will discipline us when we refuse to repent of conscious sin. But God is no longer our Judge. Through Christ, he is now our heavenly Father who disciplines us only out of love and only for our good.

If God’s favor to us were based on our performance – we’re in trouble because even our best days are flawed with sin. We don’t always have pure motives and really in some way we are always looking out for ourselves. 

~ Above excerpt from The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges

My favorite quote of Jerry Bridges is:

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.

He continues: Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day. 

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.'Click to Tweet

 

 

Related posts:

  1. What is Spiritual Maturity?
  2. Podcast EP 53: Daily Bible Reading (Spiritual Disciplines Series)
  3. EP 85: Weekly Home Blessing
  4. Practical Steps to Overcome Self Pity


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"The spiritual disciplines are ways by which we ca "The spiritual disciplines are ways by which we can spiritually place ourselves in the path of God’s grace and seek Him." ⁣
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The means of grace or spiritual disciplines are wa The means of grace or spiritual disciplines are ways the Holy Spirit conforms us more and more into the image of Christ.⁣
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This is the secret of being content: to learn and This is the secret of being content: to learn and accept that we live daily by God’s unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.⁣
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“So what does contentment mean? It is an inner s “So what does contentment mean? It is an inner sense of rest or peace that comes from being right with God and knowing that He is in control of all that happens to us.”⁣
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"Rather than mourning over sin, the world redefine "Rather than mourning over sin, the world redefines it, or worse, celebrates it."⁣
~ John MacArthur
There is no heart God cannot conquer.⁣ There is There is no heart God cannot conquer.⁣
There is no life He cannot change.⁣
There is no past He cannot forgive.⁣
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What does it look like to live a fruitful life in What does it look like to live a fruitful life in the empty nest years?  What do I do now? What does my day-to-day life look like? Am I needed anymore? These are questions that raced through my mind as the empty nest season approached and was quickly upon me.⁣
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"A Christian home should be a place of peace, and "A Christian home should be a place of peace, and there can be no peace where there is no self-denial."⁣
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