The New and Living Way

(Read this devotion from Joyce Meyer and wanted to share.)

Therefore, brethren…we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the (Holy of) Holies (by the power and virtue) in the blood of Jesus, by this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated and dedicated and opened for us. –Hebrews 10:19-20

Believing we are made right with God through our faith in Jesus Christ is a new and living way, one that gives us freedom, boldness and confidence. Trying to follow the law (trying to do everything right) in order to earn acceptance ministers death (every kind of misery) to us. Grace is God’s power coming to us free of charge to help us do with ease what we could never accomplish on our own. Grace is freeing! It puts the burden to perform on God, rather than on us. As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.

I cannot make myself acceptable to all people, and neither can you, but we can believe God will give us favor with the people He wants us involved with. Sometimes we try to have relationships with people God does not even want us to be associated with. Knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others. Once we know who we are and accept ourselves, we no longer have anything to prove.

If God is for you, who can be against you?

PJ