Sometimes we Christians can be pretty proud of our goodness. We got life right, we think, which makes us smarter and more righteous than anyone younger, or poorer, or of lesser rank.
Of course, we know better. We know the truth of Romans 3:22-27: “This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. . . . Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded.”
The Gentiles of Jesus’ day were the second-class citizens, but in God’s kingdom there is only one kind of person - the ones justified freely by his grace, the ones who’ve been given righteousness by faith alone. The ones who, like every human everywhere and through all time, have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God but were objects of mercy anyway.
We Christians are all falling-short sinners justified by grace. No boasting in that.
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