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Should God save someone like you?

If we were saved by our works, even to the slightest degree, then our ongoing struggles with sin would crush us. There would be no hope for flawed Old Testament saints, like Abraham, Isaac, and (especially) Jacob. 

There would be no way of salvation for someone like Peter, who denied Jesus three times, or for Paul, who toward the end of his life confessed himself “the chief of sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15). 

There would be no hope for you and me, who every day find indwelling sin remaining in every corner of our lives.

Yet when Jesus said, “It is finished” on the cross (John 19:30), he did not mean that he had done his part and now the rest was up to us. On the contrary, he meant full payment had been made for our sins—past, present, and future.

Nothing less than the blood of the perfect Lamb of God could have atoned for our sin, and that perfect sacrifice was indeed offered for all the sins of all his people. It is that blood that now proclaims, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1). Praise his name!

—Iain Duguid, author, Living in the Grip of Relentless Grace