Grading on the curve
I was pretty frustrated earlier today as I tried to post my daily readings. Sometimes Blogger chokes up and won't post, for no reason I can detect. In any case, I've finally given up the idea of posting those things here anyway. For one they take up some time in the early morning hours that I can better use in meditation and prayer, for another just having the computer on at that hour is a distraction for me. Better to pray and read the word the old fashioned way, for me anyway. (Of course reading the old fashioned way for me means using my old Sony Clie PDA :-)
This morning, on my way to work on
BART, I was listening to the
Bible Study podcast from KFUO and they were in Galatians. I don't recall exactly the context but they were talking about the fact that God expects us to be perfect, to obey all of the law perfectly, every day of our lives. Some people like to say that "God knows I'm not perfect, he accepts that I am a sinner," or words of similar import, but this is not true. God demands perfect obedience from us. God does not grade on the curve. Life is not a percentage grade, 95% is not an A-. No, it's pass - fail and we all have failed. Not one human being, other than Jesus, has achieved any grade other than utter and total failure. Yet still God demands perfect obedience from us, and we cannot do it. Thanks be to God we have salvation in the cross of Christ! There is nothing we do that makes us right with God, it is only our Lord Jesus Christ, who covers us with his
perfect righteousness, who saves us.