His Grace is Enough

While performing at Body & Soul's Corner Cafe this month I was really blessed to hear other musicians with different styles. However, we all share one thing. A love for our Heavenly Father and His Son Yeshua! That is one of the reasons why we will practice, travel and perform free of charge at venues like this. There really is a battle going on. One for the hearts and minds of people who need to hear the true Gospel and respond to God's one time offer.

"Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth." Psalm 110:3

Sing it, speak it, dance it. There are so many ways to praise and magnify what Yah has done through His Son. Now is not the time to be complacent but to get involved. God does not need anything from us really. However He does appreciate heartfelt worship and the extension of His grace by telling others what He has done for us in Christ. That now through Yeshua's finished work we can be called the righteousness of God!

"God's righteousness through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah- for all who believe. For there is no distinction among people," Romans 3:22

Notice there is no distinction between those who believe. Pious acts, ritual and ceremony make no difference even though many still feel the need to "make themselves" righteous before God. If that were the case or even possible, what was Yeshua's sacrifice for?

"Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you." Galatians 5:2

Many want to rely on themselves instead of Yeshua. This is a big mistake because we end up in a cycle of dead works to prove our worthiness to Yah. Salvation through faith in Yeshua is a free gift and a loving example of God's grace. What we could not be justified from by the Law of Moses, we are now freed from by Jesus obedient life and atonement.

"And by him, (Jesus), all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." Acts 13:39

This means that tithing doesn't do it. Reciting pre-written prayers doesn't do it. Belonging to a church doesn't do it either. Legalistic believers like to fall back on James' "Faith without works is dead". However, this is not talking about our salvation but how faith should manifest itself. Relying on works for a right standing with Yah is to set aside what the Messiah has already accomplished for us.

PRAYER: Father I thank you for anointing Yeshua to complete what I could not do for myself. He is the only mediator between You and man so let me rest in that and rely on Your grace, not my own works. In Yeshua's faith, Amen.