Just Jesus

DEVOTION
GALATIONS
JUST JESUS
Gal 5:2
2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
NIV
It makes so much sense I cannot understand why some people just don’t get it. How in the world can I ever submit to the concept of human efforts getting me anywhere closer to God, or gaining me entrance into his Kingdom? If I try to live according to the idea of being a good person or doing enough good deeds, or even trying to live in the same way Jesus did, I have gained nothing. The human way of doing anything is useless when it comes to gaining access to the Kingdom of God. I simply cannot do enough good deeds to earn approval and be rewarded with eternal life. I cannot be good enough in my behavior or pure enough in my thoughts to be acceptable to enter into his heavenly realm. Nothing human will ever be enough, including all those rules, regulations, doctrine, dogmas and added catechisms and manuals which define mans interpretations of righteous living. No, I am convinced my only way to enter the paradise of God is through my faith in Jesus Christ and him alone. If I go back to trying to obey all those other things as a method to gain right standing with God, then as Paul says here Christ will be of no value to me. It cannot be both; it has to be one or the other. The one leads to death, the other leads to life everlasting. Let me see, which one should I go with? I jest with myself, I cannot conceive of ever wanting anything else than life and life more abundantly through the Lord Jesus Christ. Who in their right mind would choose death instead of life? I would not. I have and will always choose life. Christ is of great value to me. I know it is all because of him and nothing because of me which has given me right standing with God. Of this I am so totally thankful and grateful. Why do people insist on adding to that? It just is not Jesus plus. It is just Jesus.