None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless no one does good, not even one.”
I have people keep telling me “You’re a good man, you’re a good father, a good friend, a good worker” I have an uneasiness when I hear this.
As a believer, should someone look at themselves and make the claim they are good? If they do, by what standard are they proclaiming this? Are any good whom have been redeemed?
This is just something that I have thought about for awhile. And the more I look at the Holiness of God and His Christ, the answer I come to is “No, I am not good”
The most honest confession of a man that I have read when it comes to his true nature is from Paul:
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that pin me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
no one understands no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless no one does good, not even one.”
I have people keep telling me “You’re a good man, you’re a good father, a good friend, a good worker” I have an uneasiness when I hear this.
As a believer, should someone look at themselves and make the claim they are good? If they do, by what standard are they proclaiming this? Are any good whom have been redeemed?
This is just something that I have thought about for awhile. And the more I look at the Holiness of God and His Christ, the answer I come to is “No, I am not good”
The most honest confession of a man that I have read when it comes to his true nature is from Paul:
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that pin me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
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