But the message of the gospel tell you:
You sin, God pays, and you will be forgiven and made right with your relationship with God.
What depths of grace shown on the cross! What depths of love, of mercy, of undeserving grace. This grace that is known through the conviction of the Spirit by the power of God. To be made justified before God and to be constantly sanctified through the working of the Spirit to draw closer to God. This grace that leads to humble repentance. This grace that leads to accepting that we are weak, we need God, we are helpless.
Salvation through grace, but by faith alone, not by works. Just like a heart transplant, the process after the surgery will definitely be painful, physically. In the same way, the process is painful in this walk with God, but necessary. Just as God had taken our heart of stone, and gave us a heart of flesh, to obey, to want to seek Him, the body will constantly reject this "foreign object" that's been put in you. The body want to keep being of this world, to drown itself in sin, but the heart, strengthened by the Spirit as the helper to keep us going to Christ, to keep us pursuing holiness because God is holy. He reminds us of our sins, dealt with on the Cross, He helps us to bring us to repentance, to strengthen us when we are weak.
I am weak. But by God's grace, may His strength be shown in my weakness.
Hannah
