Obedience and Faithfulness and Love

We ought to be obedient and faithful.  But why?  Very simply, to honor our Lord Jesus Christ.  It is true that God's faithfulness is greater than our faithfulness to Him.  It is true that the active and passive obedience of Christ is greater than our obedience or performance.  We must rest on the active and passive obedience of Christ alone that will take us to heaven.  Our performance will not take us to heaven but only trusting in the sinless performance of Jesus and His perfect death will take us to heaven.

We ought to be faithful in repentance, faith, focus, wisdom and knowledge in our Savior Jesus Christ.  God is the only one who can forgive sins and He is faithful to forgive.  We ought to be obedient because we should follow in the footsteps of Christ because of His obedience.  The world, the flesh and the devil will battle with us.  We may fall into grievous and tormenting sin and scandalize others, but the Lord is faithful to us through His Son.

We will all have to give an account of ourselves before God.  It means judgment is coming; however, for the believer in Christ there is no judgment but fellowship and friendship with God in heaven.  The only hope we have is Jesus Christ.  We should not put our trust in someone else.  We ought to keep our trust on Christ alone because He will see us through.  He is true and faithful.  We may fall into great sin along the way; however, the consequence because of sin does not mean He does not love us.  He always loves us because we are in Christ!  We may struggle with unbelief but the Savior is aware of our struggles.  I am convinced that nothing can take us away from God's love in and through the Savior.  May we ponder deeply what this means.  Amen.