DAD'S DAILY BREAD

20 For no person will be justified [freed of guilt and declared righteous] in His sight by [trying to do] the works of the Law. For through the Law we become conscious of sin [and the recognition of sin directs us toward repentance, but provides no remedy for sin]. Romans 3 

Spoiler alert… The remedy is Jesus! 

Paul spends most of the beginning of chapter 3 explaining how you will be accountable for your actions. It doesn’t matter if you’re a jew or a gentile.  A gentile is anyone not under God’s covenant. God gave us the law to make sin known but it says nothing about how to be saved. Doing perfectly what God’s moral law requires is impossible. So what are we supposed to do?

Accepting that there is a righteousness that we cannot attain is not easy. My whole life I have been trying my best to be better. Has it all been meaningless??? Talk about a door for satan to sneak in and pound me with guilt and shame… Not even mentioning the time I wasted in sin and the guilt of dragging my family with me… Lord please HELP me! 

Paul doesn’t end there. Thankfully!!! I’m excited to read and study and live and put into practice all the ways Paul or God is going to tell us, coming up in Romans, about how to deal with the sin that keeps showing its ugly face in my life!! Thank you Lord for making a way to you!!! Please have mercy on me!

APPLICATION:

Walk in repentance! Fill my mind and heart with scripture. Listen to my conscience and pray! Memorize scripture so I have weapons to fight with. Be holy at all times! Live as an example to my wife and kids. Continue to push into God and pray for righteousness!! Be thankful for what God and Christ have done. And are still doing it!! Accept ALL the gifts from God by faith and believe and live differently! Be better because God deserves it! Thank you Jesus for your grace and mercy!! Give me the strength to be better!

IN HIS NAME!!