Tad, thanks so much for replying!! Email me at leneita@everybodysurban.org and let me know what you are thinking 🙂

Tad, thanks so much for replying!! Email me at leneita@everybodysurban.org and let me know what you are thinking 🙂

Ben, I think it’s the hardest part to embrace in our salvation. Yes, Jesus loves us just because He loves us. However, he never “owed” us salvation. He didn’t have to die a miserable death for our sake. He didn’t ever even have to come to earth. I should stand in awe of what He has done for me that I don’t deserve far more than I do.

Ben, I think it’s the hardest part to embrace in our salvation. Yes, Jesus loves us just because He loves us. However, he never “owed” us salvation. He didn’t have to die a miserable death for our sake. He didn’t ever even have to come to earth. I should stand in awe of what He has done for me that I don’t deserve far more than I do.

I believe that pride is always at the door waiting for us to think we are deserving, when we let this pride slip in we are letting the original sin in our lives. Lucifer while still in heaven said in Isaiah 14:14, “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.” in a sense I guess he was saying, “I deserve it” because of his position as the worship leader and how beautiful he thought he was.

Balance must be in all things, yes we do need to see ourselves a priceless and valuable, yes we are the “apple of God’s eye” yes He does love us with an everlasting love, yes if I was the only person on earth Jesus would still die for me, but that doesn’t mean He did it because I deserve it, but because we are His creations and because of how wonderful and good He is. Ephesians 2:8-10 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

I believe that pride is always at the door waiting for us to think we are deserving, when we let this pride slip in we are letting the original sin in our lives. Lucifer while still in heaven said in Isaiah 14:14, “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.” in a sense I guess he was saying, “I deserve it” because of his position as the worship leader and how beautiful he thought he was.

Balance must be in all things, yes we do need to see ourselves a priceless and valuable, yes we are the “apple of God’s eye” yes He does love us with an everlasting love, yes if I was the only person on earth Jesus would still die for me, but that doesn’t mean He did it because I deserve it, but because we are His creations and because of how wonderful and good He is. Ephesians 2:8-10 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.