Am I Worthy

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[for me anyway] our attitude, our mind-set ought to be in humility which is the greatest Christian virtue, and we have examples of them that know this such as: John the Baptist saying >I am unworthy even to stoop down and unloosen His shoe latches; or Peter saying>Depart from me for I am a sinful man O Lord; or the centurion saying>I am not worthy that He should enter under my roof; or Paul saying>I am less than the least of all saints.

May i add the publican who was praying in the temple in the parrable...

Luke 18 KJV
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

[SUP]11 [/SUP]The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

[SUP]14 [/SUP]I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

 

[mailmandan]

[for me anyway] our attitude, our mind-set ought to be in humility which is the greatest Christian virtue, and we have examples of them that know this such as: John the Baptist saying >I am unworthy even to stoop down and unloosen His shoe latches; or Peter saying>Depart from me for I am a sinful man O Lord; or the centurion saying>I am not worthy that He should enter under my roof; or Paul saying>I am less than the least of all saints.

Amen! Jesus commended the Centurion's faith for humbly confessing his unworthiness. "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.." Jesus said, "Not even in Israel have I found such faith" (Luke 7:6, 9).

John the Baptist said of Jesus, "He who comes after me, the strap of his sandal I am not worthy to untie" (John 1:27). So how shall we understand our worthiness of Jesus in view of our sinfulness?

To be worthy of Jesus does not mean we deserve Jesus, or merit Jesus, or earn Jesus. Nothing we do puts Him in a position of owing us anything. Thus our preference for his worth is our worth. To be worthy of the infinite worth of Jesus is to see and savor him as infinitely worthy. This is not earning or meriting or deserving Jesus.

Luke 20:35 - But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead.. Accounted worthy; just as we are accounted as righteous because of our faith (Romans 4:5-6), but we are not "in of ourselves" (apart from the imputed righteousness of Christ/blood of Christ), worthy and righteous.