'No Boasting In Front Of God.'
Romans 4:2.
a) If Abraham's good deeds
b) Had made him acceptable to God
c) He would have had something to boast about.
d) But that was not God's Way!
(This QT reminds me that there is No Boasting In Front Of God)
PRAY: For God to help us not to boast.
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'Standing Before The Throne.'
Revelation 20:12.
a) And I saw the dead,
b) The great and the small
c) Standing before the Throne
d) And books were opened;
e) And another Book was opened,
f) Which is the Book of Life;
g) And the dead were judged
h) From the things that were written in the books,
i) According to their deeds.
(This Second one reminds me that one day, in the future, I will be Standing Before The Throne)
PRAY: To be ready for this Judgment - which is to do with our deeds.
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Chris.
We are not made acceptable to God by our good works. This is something that diligent True Believers need to remember. We are made acceptable to God only by and through what Jesus Christ has done for us. If we truly love God, then our good works are a part of expressing our love for Him. Our primary focus needs to be on loving God. If we live in such a way, we will be ready to stand before God's Throne when the Day comes.
The Believer's works that we do should be something that flows from the source of our relationship with God.
For those of us who have lovely fathers, that is fathers who love both God and us, we love to please them, we do not want to break their hearts. We really desire to have their "blessing" on our lives. We enjoy our relationship and our communication with them. We know that we are more than acceptable to them. We enjoy good fellowship with them.
If this is true of our relationship with a loving father, how much more should it be so in our relationship with our Heavenly Father.
