Because of His grace and righteousness

“He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103,10-12 (NKJV)

“God does not want to find you at fault.”

This wonderful revelation really shows the heart of God: LOVE.

God does not want to find us at fault, not for his own sake, but for our sake.

God is not looking to condemn us but rather He has done everything to acquit us and make us righteous in Jesus Christ. “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans 5,1 NKJV)

Because of the righteousness God has imputed to us when we believed in His Son Jesus and His sacrifice for us, we became eligible, we are the perfect candidate for a life that transcends the systems of the fallen world. We have the right to live the same kind of life Jesus lived on earth because He was without sin.

The fallen world is a world of corruption (decay and death). Something the earth begun to experience when Adam and Eve sinned. “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3,18 NKJV)

Adam and Eve fell from a high place. As much as there is a fallen world, there is also a high world: a world above the fallen world, the world God had intended for man from the beginning.

“For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.” Romans 5,17 (ESV)

Grace! As much as it is given, grace must be received. And God encourages to receive lots of it.

However, because we have lived in the fallen world for a long time and all men have experienced corruption in some form, we tend to believe that that's what 'life' is. Or that the output we get is dependent on our input.

When God created man in the garden of Eden, there was no input-output equation. All that Adam and Eve needed was available, their job was only to tend the garden. To be fruitful and multiply. To subdue the earth.

The response to this grace is faith. We have to believe that this is what Jesus came to restore.

“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10,10 NKJV) And, this does not depend on the righteousness that is of ourselves.

One of the things we can learn from little children, as Jesus said “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18,3 NKJV), little children don’t have a care in the world: they ‘unconsciously’ know that their lives are dependent on their parents and that there is nothing they must do to make their parents care for them.

God is way better than any loving parent. Like someone said “He never has a bad day” 😊

Let go of self, receive abundance of grace (grace, both the unmerited favor of God and His divine enablement) and enjoy God’s gift of righteousness. That is how to live above and not beneath.

 “And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.” Revelation 5, 9-10 (NKJV)