Think you're pretty great?

Jesus Christ is not just a bandage for the wounded.  Nor is he just a friend for the lonely. 

He is the God-man incarnate, who's destiny was put in forth before the creation of the world to not merely bandage your wounds, but to heal you completely, restore you and make you brand new through the life giving work of the Holy Spirit. 

Although, He is a friend, He is so much more than that.  He is our advocate who speaks in our defense, because before God we stand guilty.  Yet, through Christ death and resurrection we are forgiven and free. 

However, if you do not know Him as Lord and Savior, you are His enemy, not His friend.  If you claim Christianity, but are not a follower of the risen Christ you are fooling yourself and you are still dead in your sin. 

Many an individual has gone through life believing that they are really something.  We believe the lie that we've got it all together and that life with us in charge is the way its suppose to be.  We might not say it out loud, but inwardly, in the depths of our selfishness we think we're pretty great. 

God does not think that you are great.  This is a hard truth for some of us to realize.  For only He alone is great and we are undeserving of His mercy and grace, yet He chooses to lavish it on us anyways. 

Go on thinking that you're great and you'll realize that you've missed salvation.  For a man will always think he is great until he views his life in light of the cross of Christ.  For when we do we realize that we are a rebellious people in desperate need of forgiveness. 

Do not compare yourself to sinful man, you'll always find someone more sinful than you.  Compare yourself to Jesus Christ, the perfect one, who died to set humanity free.  Then in your realization of who you truly are, respond to God, put your life in His hands, let go and follow Jesus. 

It is in the letting go that we find life.  Hallelujah.

My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 1 John 2:1