Received this little story from Victoria this morning via email:
One day God was looking down at earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on. So He called one of His angels and sent the angel to earth for a time.When he returned, he told God, "Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not."God thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion."So God called another angel and sent him to earth for a time, too.When the angel returned he went to God and said, "Yes, it's true. The! earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good."God was not pleased. So He decided to email the 5% who were good because He wanted to encourage them, give them a little something to help them keep going.Do you know what the email said?
No?
Okay, just wondering. I didn't get one either.
Funny huh? yet true, who could even be in that 5%? who is really good? as I read in the good book, all have been bad, did I choose to misquote or just leave out the word sinned? OK so all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. Rom 3:23 But what we do about that truth makes all the difference in the world.
2 comments:
Victoria sent me that email too. Funny that she's now sending out forwards... she has reached "email maturity".
What a great point! We have all sinned.
But in the gospel, a righteousness from God is revealed that is by faith from first to last. By faith alone, God puts Christ's righteousness onto us, covering our shame, just as he clothed Adam and Eve with the animal skins.
May we be found in Christ on that Day.
Michael
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