Good Thursday morning! :-) Wishy-washy, weasel judgements abound in the world. We see it on the telly and read about them in our books; the W-WWJ's happen when someone, real or character, is judged to be "basically a good person." Usually this judgement is passed about whether the person or character in question should or did go to heaven or not. I hope that I do not have to depend on people judging me as "basically good" for entrance into heaven. What if God should hold a vote and one more person votes me basically bad? Yikes, eternity in hell just because I didn't return that call in 1992 as quickly as I should have?
Praise God that we have an eternal standard. Question: Am I basically good or basically bad? Bible: For all have sinned and fallen short of God's glorious standard. Question: Who then can be saved? Bible: What is impossible for men is possible for God. Question: How then can I be saved? Bible: For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Can you or I meet God's glorious standard? Look at it this way. If we play baseball everyday with players of equal skill, we would have a batting average. In the major leagues a very good hitter might have a .333 lifetime batting average; meaning that they failed 2 out every 3 at-bats. A perfect average 1.000, a one thousand as they say, has not been accomplished and probably never will be. Yes, there may be a statistical anomaly such as the dude who played one game in his career and went 2 for 2 that day, but we are talking the everyday players here - just like we must play the game everyday in this life.
Back in the day, Moses, David, Solomon, the prophets and even ordinary Joes and Janes like you and me all failed to hit for a perfect average. They would have said such a thing was impossible. Jesus answered the question of impossible when he lived his life on this earth and ended it with a perfect average. So, after Jesus proved it possible, did the disciples manage to bat a thousand in their lives? How about the saints throughout the next 2,000 years? No? What happened? We all know by this point in our lives that we have not and will not live the perfect life. Jesus called himself the Way because there is no other way to be redeemed from the penalty of sin. We must depend on and trust in Jesus for our salvation - He is the only Way!
Praise God there is a Way! Without Jesus where would we be? Probably without hope as we tried again and again to hit for the perfect average, ever fearful that one more person would remember us as "basically bad."
Have a great Thursday in Christ Jesus!
Bucky
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