I Deserve

I deserve it!!!  You deserve better!!! I hear these words more and more often. Even the legendary Joe Namath is on a commercial to tell you that you deserve something better. When did we become a group of people that somehow “deserves” something?  And when did we “deserve” better?  When we compare what we have now to the generations before us, how do we even dare to demand such a thing?

The Bible is clear that when we do not belong to Christ, we are deserving of the punishment for our own sins. We are deserving of the condemnation of God. We deserve to be the one that hangs on the Cross for our sins. That is truly what we deserve!  But God offers us a way to escape the punishment that we deserve. His name is Jesus Christ.

Mercy is God withholding from us what we deserve to get: punishment. Grace is God giving us what we don’t deserve: salvation. We deserve punishment but instead receive grace, all because of God’s perfect plan of salvation through Jesus Christ.

So the next time you say that you deserve something (a raise, break today, or something else), stop and think about what you really deserve. Then thank God that He withheld from you what you really deserved because of what Jesus Christ did. Have you thanked Him today?

Have a great day and God bless.