Unworthy

Do you ever feel unworthy? Do you ever feel like you don't deserve anything? Or do you feel like you deserve all that you want and more? Truth is, we don't deserve anything. Actually, that's not true. We deserve death. I am tired of people living their lives with this idea that they deserve things. Even the foundation of our country is that we deserve (or we have the right to) life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I disagree. The Bible does also. The Bible talks about how the wages of sin is death, we are sinful, we lack any sort of good.
(Romans 6:20-23, Ephesians 2:3, )

If you stop reading this post now, you may walk away with negative feelings. You might be angry at me, disagree with me or feel depressed. But there is hope. There is someone who can make us worthy and give us life. He still does not make us deserve anything, but He substituted Himself for us so that we may have life. These verses do not stand alone to make us feel horrible about ourselves and worthless. These verses continue on to show us God's grace and mercy. To show us what Christ has done for us so that we do not remain worthless and unrighteous.

²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. ²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in^[a] Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:20-23


³ All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh^[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. ⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶ And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:3-7


³ At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, ⁵ he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:3-7


Take heart. Through Christ, we are made righteous and been set free.