Have you ever felt like you’re trying to climb a mountain that you were never strong enough to climb? Like you you keep trying to be good enough to meet all the expectations, but no matter how hard you push, the summit just keeps drifting out of reach. Stay with me for the next couple of minutes because by the end of this devotional, you’re going to see why the pressure to be perfect was never meant to be on your shoulders and what it really means to walk through the low door of humility, repentance, and faith into the grace of God. Before
we go any further, uh, make sure that you hit the subscribe button so that you subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so you never miss one of these coffee devotionals. The heart of the gospel can be summed up like this. The life we couldn’t live, Jesus lived for us.
The death that we should have died, Jesus died for us. And the new life we need, Jesus gives to us. Those three lines hold a whole universe of truth. They tell us something that is very humbling. At least it is to me. I can never live the life that God requires. And neither can you. Not even on our best day. Not with the strongest willpower, the most discipline, not with the the noblelest intentions.
I understand what it feels like to not be good enough, to try to achieve a sense of worth by being good. But moral perfection, moral adequacy is a mountain that is just too high for any of us. Living fully for the glory of God is not something that we can do. It exceeds our natural ability. Being truly good and truly wise are face facts out of the reach of the selfmpowered heart.
The downward drag of our own sin and our flesh makes it impossible. Every one of us will fall short of God’s standard. And all of us stand guilty before his judgment throne. And I’m not going to soften that. We shouldn’t we shouldn’t explain it away. We should just admit it. Left to ourselves, we are spiritually bankrupt.
If we don’t want to believe that, then we’re calling God a liar. That never turns out well. We need to face it. You know, our our our culture that we live in. Even sometimes the cozy Christian culture will write lots of books and show us lots of videos and market a thousand solutions for our problems.
They’ll say, “Well, bu build these seven better habits or just master your mindset or optimize your morning and uh set the the positive vibes in motion or discipline your desires, upgrade your system. Are these things helpful? They can be, sure. But they’re powerless to rescue our heart, our soul. They can’t change our nature.
They don’t transform our desires. You see, the Bible never describes us as spiritually struggling. It describes us as spiritually dead. We have flatlined. We’re not weak. We’re not wounded. We’re not behind schedule. We are dead. Think about it. Can a dead person climb a mountain? No. He can’t climb. He can’t reform himself and he definitely cannot raise himself from the dead.
