Can We Be Righteous Before God?
Scripture Job 25:4 How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman?
Observation: We can’t be righteous before God, only through the sacrifice of Jesus can we come before our Father in prayer. So why bother with us at all? God has put on my heart for some time that we are created in God’s image and that means our emotional side as well. As parents we want to be obeyed and loved for who we are. We want our children to look up to us and want to spend time with us. I believe so many answers to our questions about God can be answered in part by looking at our earthly parent and child relationships. We will never be able to love our children as God loves, but we can see why God puts up with us as much as He does. He wants us to love Him without conditions and wants to spend time with Him. God wants a relationship with us and not a forced one but one that we desire Him.
Application: I need to start looking at God more as my heavenly Father. My father wasn’t a very good dad and I was probably a worse father then him. There were things that I wanted from him as his child and things that I wanted from my children as their dad. I need to do those things with love do my true Father. I need to live a life with Him as the center and not me. I need to stop worrying about everything and trust in Him. As I wanted to be a proud dad, I want my Father to be proud that I’m His child and my love for Him is obvious to everyone I come in contact with.
Prayer: Hi Dad. I know I haven’t been a good and faithful son to you, but I want you to know that I love you and want to do better. May you be in my thoughts throughout every day and that I will put what you want for me first. I want to be able to come home in a way that I would have pleased you and did what you desired of me. That when I see you for the first time that I can run into your arms knowing that you were proud of me. I love you Father fill me with the Holy Spirit and help me live the rest of this life in glory and honor to you.