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So How Bad Is Too Bad?

29 Mar

Humans are pretty amazing.  You ask them about people who are mass murders, Hitler, the guy who burns down his house with his children in it and boy those guys are worthy of hell.  However, when it comes to asking the standard of how we’re all doing and the bar is somewhere below each one of us.  I’m not that bad many will say.  Look at such and such, they live a lot worse than I do.  On the curve, I’m actually quite good.

What’s wrong with this thinking?

Our opinion in the grand scheme of things doesn’t matter.  The devil wants you to think that the most important thing in the world is your right to be your own little god and make your decisions.  That is what he sold Eve in the garden.  You’re an adult, you have free will, you have that right.  No one including God should have a right to tell you what to do.  Is that right?  That’s the way a lot of proud people think.

Jesus said he who is the least is the greatest.

Mark 9:35 – 35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”

He washed the feet of His disciples and died for all of us.  This was an example of God humbling Himself out of love to show us the way.

Will it always be that way?  Actually God wants us to repent and come back to be with Him forever.  He wants us to worship Him and follow Him like it was supposed to be in the beginning.

Throughout the Old Testament we see God’s judgments and wrath and we also see it coming in the book of Revelation.  God is loving and patient, not a pushover like many of those who mock Him.

The answer to the title is we are all too bad on our own.

Romans 3:9-12 –  What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. 10 As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”

So we all qualify.  What’s the answer?  Where’s the hope?

Romans 6:23 – 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We need to make Jesus our Lord.  If we are making Jesus our Lord then being the God of our own lives makes it too crowded.  We need to seek more Jesus and less of ourselves.

 

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