I'd like to feel I am not the only one out there that believes this. It's hard for me not to because my mind thinks there has to be a reason for everything. There is a reason I love my family, there is a reason I am typing this blog, there is a reason I am watching the Big Bang Theory while typing this (just because they are very inspirational). But, I have done nothing, yet God in His vast and unexplainable grace forgave me. I always believe I have do something for Him like get good grades, live the best I can and do everything the "right way".
There is something that constantly keeps me thinking that while I am God's child, I have also sinned. Yes, as much as we all hate to hear it, we must listen to this fact. It's a very proven fact because even the best person in the world has made terrible choices. One story I had that I will never forget is when I talked to my roommate about what a Christlike walk is like. He told me that he felt the word "perfection" in the the Christian language makes us higher than others who have not accepted Christ. I cannot help but believe him on this because we like to go around and say that we are perfect people when we need to realize who we truly are!
There is hope in all of this, its hard to see the hope after realizing who we are. I always had a hard time with realizing that I am a sinner but can still have a close walk with God. A lot of people feel like we can never live up to His standards. But, one of my college books "Called to be Holy" by John Oswalt says that God would not have put the Law and 10 Commandments and would not say that we can follow the example of Christ if we could not do it. What kind of God would that be if He said live as Christ but you will never make it. Christ even said that we can do even greater things than him!
These two aspects of recognizing who we are and who we can become are crucial to our Christian walk. What if we all realized that are not as great as we think we are? What if we see others in the same place like us? John Wesley never said that he was ever perfected (I have not read this myself but various professors have stated this), so why do we hold ourselves higher than others like the Pharisees did? Then, why do we just say there is no hope? We do not need more revivals, we do not need to tell ourselves that we cannot make it through the day, or week. We have an example that lived out the life that we are called to, lets take up our cross and follow him on the street of Calvary that he walked and never forget that God began this work in us, and not matter what we have done, or who we really are, He will always love us.
