It’s impossible to live a Christian life without Christ. God knows our hearts, yet He still calls us saints. We may be able to fool others by acting righteous while still committing sins of the heart. There will also be instances when we act with the wrong motives, and what is not done by faith is sin. We may assume we can fulfill all that’s necessary for holiness through our own merits, but there will be times when we sin by failing to do what we know is the right thing to do. Our belief that we need our Savior moves us from feebly struggling in self-effort back into resting in His grace. We find peace and holiness in the grace of God, not through our own actions. Misinterpreting the Scriptures could fool us into thinking we must work to be holy enough to see the Lord, when all we need to do is believe in Jesus Christ. When we trust in what we do more than in what Jesus did, we fall from grace, but that doesn’t mean we fall back into sin.įalling from grace is actually falling back into self-effort. This is important to remember when religious mindsets threaten to move us away from depending on God toward depending on our own performance. As God’s children, we know Jesus’ body and blood provided forgiveness for all our sins-even the ones we haven’t committed yet, and we can trust in that. During our Christian walk, we’ll all make mistakes from time to time.
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