Can You Really Trust And Count On Yourself To Make It To Heaven?
Many people bank on themselves, who they are and what they have done, to make it to heaven and be with God forever to enjoy Him. They have faith in themselves and in their performances even though they admit that they are sinners.
Can a criminal be confident about his case before a thoroughly just judge who knows all about his crimes personally? Can a sinner be positive and upbeat about his record before a holy and just God when even his own conscience accuses him of his sins and transgressions?
Face to face with the Ten Commandments, with all its demands that includes perfect obedience even down to the inward motions of our hearts, can we really be satisfied with ourselves and be bold with ourselves that we will be saved?
If pride and self-righteousness are set aside, truth be told, we know that we can't make it. We can't trust in ourselves to be saved. We have failed so many times. We have missed the mark that God wants us to hit all the time. It's an open and shut case---we are sinners, plain and obvious, deserving judgment.
No, we cant rely and trust in ourselves. But God has given us the Lord Jesus Christ, our Representative and Substitute. He died for our sins and rose from the grave. In Him, not in ourselves, we can put our trust for our salvation. Have you?
