June 14

How is it that in God’s eyes the good people among us fail as miserably as do the scoundrels and reprobates? The answer lies in the fact that the best and the worst of us are cut from the same cloth. Though one may have fashioned a stylish garment and the other produced a fashion eye-sore, the cloth is the same. It is flawed.

Yet, our Heavenly Father wants what is best for us, so He sent His Best to redeem us from ourselves. There is no person who has ever lived or will ever live who has the capacity to attain God’s high standard on his own. Because God’s will for us is beyond our ability to achieve, He achieved it for us—then presented it to us as a free Gift.

Every one of us is fallen because every one of us has a carnal mind and the carnal mind is at enmity with God. Romans 8:6 tells us that “to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is peace.” To expand upon this thought is to acknowledge that man’s carnality causes him to fear death for death is the ultimate, unconquerable enemy. Peace is impossible in the face of such insurmountable fear.

But Christ conquered death for us! When we have accepted Jesus as Savior and Lord we know He has made us to be victorious over life’s problems—including the problem of our own demise! When we know that death no longer has power over us, we have peace. This peace the Bible tells us is beyond anything we can fully understand. We--all of us--can receive it and be transformed by it!