Re: Do you ever find yourself thinking/feeling like you're not a "good enough" Christ
That's why it is vital to our spiritual and emotional growth and joy to know the love and grace of God. He loves us when we do bad and when we do good. He loves us when we fail or when we win. His love stays the exact same at all times. It's a compass to live our lives by.
Jesus paid for us to be able to stand just as we are before a Holy God. When we see our unworthiness it is at that time we need to draw on the grace of God IN Christ. Jesus paid for our guilt and remorse and failure.
How much more now that we are His? Here is an excerpt of a devotional I read the other day that addresses this very truth.
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[TD="class: yiv1422045187mcnTextContent"]Every time you confess, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ”, God the Father is pleased. When you confess that you are the righteousness of God in Christ, we are reminded of what His Son has done for us to become righteous.
"Also, by making you righteous, God is showing Himself righteous—“to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus”. (Romans 3:26)
Each time Jesus hears you confess, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ,” it brings much pleasure to His heart too, because you are laying hold of what He suffered and died to give you.
The Holy Spirit, who now indwells you to convict you of righteousness (John 16:10), also rejoices when you confess, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ.” He is pleased when you flow with Him.
The delight of the Godhead is not the only thing you gain when you declare, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ.” The Bible tells us that when you “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…all these things shall be added to you”. (Matthew 6:33)
Whether it is food, clothing or other necessities in life, “all these things” will be added to you. They will not just be given to you, but added to you as your inheritance when you seek first His righteousness."
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