I'm right, because of...

Have u ever thought or believed like this? That you measure on how good you are as a Christian based on what you have done? Or perhaps something simpler than that, like counting how many days you have spent in a week for church activities. I did! But I’m grateful and thanking God for making it clear for me, that it’s not the truth. I praise God for this.

Unconsciously, I used to feel good when I spent a lot of time or at least enough time – in my own human standard, for church activities or different ministries. It’s not wrong to serve our brothers and sisters at church and also enjoy our time during church activities, indeed it’s the thing that we’re encouraged to do. But, now I realized that it’s not the place that I can find my assurance. When I can be sure that I’m righteous in front of God. Though, we can only find our assurance in Jesus’ death and resurrection. Only because He was dying in our place and take away the punishment that we should bear because of our sin, we’re made right in front of God. In Romans 3:21-26, Paul said,

“21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it – 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 24 and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had pass over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” (ESV)

And we can’t just measure or count our Christianity based on the day or time that we spent at church or for church activities. Because our Christian life is not only when we are at church at Sunday or when we’re serving others, but it involves our whole life. Let every small decision that we make, reflect how the true follower of Christ should live.