{"id":941,"date":"2012-03-23T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=941"},"modified":"2012-03-23T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:00:01","slug":"we-are-not-worthy-thats-why-there-is-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"We Are Not Worthy &#8211; That&#8217;s Why There is Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newbiblestudyonline.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/st-matthew-chapter-10-verses-38-who-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> kind of thinking is no gospel.  Where is the good news?<\/p>\n<p>This writer says, &#8220;If your love is distracted by someone else then you are not worthy.  If your love is not given completely, then you are not worthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t that the point? None, may I repeat this, none of us is worthy (Isaiah 64:6).<\/p>\n<p>Scripture tells us we love God because He first loved us.  We are not worthy of God&#8217;s love but that&#8217;s Who God is (God is love just don&#8217;t confuse with love is God&#8230;). God loves us and demonstrated His love for us by sending Jesus to die for our sins and even our bad motives for good things we do.<\/p>\n<p>Even our very effort to be worthy falls completely short of God&#8217;s glory (Romans 3:23).  Even if I can love God completely, I am still a fallen creature in need of saving.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t pick myself up by my own bootstraps and &#8220;be worthy&#8221;.  It&#8217;s impossible.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we need grace.  We&#8217;re not worthy of anything God gives us except His wrath, and Jesus is our propitiation (He satisfied God&#8217;s wrath for us and in our place).  Without Christ, we are children of wrath but with Christ we are children of grace.<\/p>\n<p>I am not worthy of God&#8217;s love but He certainly is worthy of my love and devotion.  Thankfully I rest in Christ&#8217;s work on my behalf and not on my own effort or merit.<\/p>\n<p>I am not worthy but Christ is worthy for me and in my place.  That&#8217;s good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kind of thinking is no gospel. Where is the good news? This writer says, &#8220;If your love is distracted by someone else then you are not worthy. If your love is not given completely, then you are not worthy.&#8221; But isn&#8217;t that the point? None, may I repeat this, none of us is worthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[58,59],"tags":[26,226,263,43],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel","category-grace-2","tag-gospel","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-salvation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hM8I-fb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}