IN GOD'S BEST INTEREST

In God's Best Interest

Toni Babcock

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31).

This is God's word and promise for all self-flagellators who lay their burden down at the foot of the cross and pick it back up again. 

It's for people whose brains get fixated on their trespasses - and who never seem to get past the past. 

It's for people who accept and agree to their wretched condition, but who somehow can't bring themselves to agree with Jesus about their blessed position.

The Apostle Paul called himself the chief of sinners - but self-flagellators believe that was because they hadn't been born yet. 

They become double-minded - wanting to believe what Jesus tells them in the light, but tempted to believe what the devil whispers to them in the dark. 

No matter how much sorrow for sin they confess, they continue to doubt that the blood of Christ has made full satisfaction for their sins. 

In a peculiar way, they convince themselves their case is peculiar above all the rest. 

Hear me out. This is the devil's trap if there ever was one.

Feeling unredeemable may actually feel better than letting ourselves off the hook, but it could be an unconscious attempt to make satisfaction for our own sins. 

This is impossible of course. 

The devil knows it - and if we are honest so do we.

Recognize the devil's ploy. 

Allow the blood of Jesus to do his work. 

It isn't about us - it's about giving God the glory. 

He has a job for us to do, but we won't be able to succeed in doing it if we're feeling guilty and condemned all the time. 

In God's best interest - believe the gospel.

Toni is the author of The Stone Writer. Find her books and more articles HERE.