Leave the Burden on God Michael Edwards
If I make you a promise, what can you do to make sure I keep my promise? The answer is nothing. The burden is always on the one making the promise. They are telling the truth and capable of keeping their word or they are telling a lie, unfaithful to their own words, and perhaps incapable of keeping the promise. If we decide to take a person at their word, to believe what they say, the only thing we can do is trust they will follow through. The burden is theirs.
Many followers of Christ insist that we must keep the law, that God demands change, that God demands man’s works righteousness to keep His promise. In other words, they treat God’s promise as a conditional promise when Jesus did not make us a conditional promise other than to believe.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” John 3:16-18 ESV
In treating Jesus promise as conditional, many sincere believers have taken a burden upon themselves that is not theirs. Instead of believing the truth that Jesus has fully qualified us and made us righteous, in error they live like Jesus only finished a portion of the necessary work and watches to see if we qualify to be saved.
Giving thanks to the Father, WHO HAS QUALIFIED YOU to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Col 1:12-13 ESV
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