What a question. It’s deep, it’s emotional, it’s raw, and it’s something that we have all asked at some point in our lives.
I hope that when you asked this, the answer you got was ‘yes‘. If directly or indirectly you got a ‘no‘, if you feel like you will never be good enough, you find yourself in good company here.
Job replies to Bildad (ch.8) and says,
Truly I know that it is so:
But how can a man be in the right before God?Job 9.2
This is a process that we all work through, isn’t it?
We accept that the world was made. We accept that the world was made by an all-powerful creator God. We accept that this all-powerful creator God is uniquely holy and pure. We accept that, by nature, we are not. We question, will I ever be good enough for this all-powerful, creator God who is uniquely holy and pure?
The answer is that alone, left to your own devices, no, you won’t be. You never will be. This is bad news.
We many look at others and appear humanly righteous, as people like Noah (Genesis 7.1) and Job himself (1.1) were. But, bigger picture, compared to the uniquely holy and pure righteousness of God, are we? Can we ever be good enough?
There will only ever be one way that God looks at you and declares you righteous – faith in Jesus.
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As by nature we are all broken and sinful, by faith we are declared righteous (Romans 5.19).
There will always be others around us to whom we can point and say look, see, I am more righteous than him/her. Does this make us good enough?
With faith in Jesus, you have the only thing you ever need to be good enough for our all-powerful creator God who is uniquely and totally holy and pure. This is the Good News!
James Travis 