What God Wants From You As A Sinner
God wants you to take Him seriously. So seriously that you hate sin in your life. That in you there would be this desire to be perfectly righteous in His sight beginning in the inward parts, in your heart. Not just external righteousness but internal righteousness. He wants you to hunger and thirst for righteousness.
And that in the process of desiring it you realize that you are powerless and helpless in yourself to attain it by your own efforts. You attempted over and over again to be perfectly righteous in His
sight but failed time and time again.
sight but failed time and time again.
He wants you to realize that you are spiritually bankrupt. He wants you to be humbled. He wants you to mourn over your condition. He wants you to stop asserting yourself that you are worthy of salvation.
To sum it all up, He wants you to repent. To change your attitude towards God, change your attitude towards sin and change your attitude towards self.
And then, He wants you to look away from your helpless and powerless self to the Savior He provided and view Him and what He did on the cross as your only hope of acceptance with God and salvation, realizing that salvation is given as an undeserved favor and a free gift of God to those who are not worthy of it.
Mt 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart...
Mt 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness...
Mt 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit...
Mt 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn...
Mt 5:5 Blessed are the meek...
Mt 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness...
Mt 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit...
Mt 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn...
Mt 5:5 Blessed are the meek...
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
