Christianity and Legalism

I thoroughly enjoyed today's message. I had my share of doubts when the speaker was late but all in all, the Holy Spirit spoke today. Despite the human error, God was victorious as the message was extremely convincing and rather piercing upon my heart.

Complacency is every man's enemy, especially in our relationship with Christ. It's so easy to forget about who God is and what He does for us. We take our eyes off of Jesus (much like Peter did when He was walking on water) and the weight of the world drowns our Spirit. Following God becomes this giant chore and we get caught up behind the legalism of it all rather than the relationship aspect. We continue to do the do's and not do the don'ts, not because of our love for Christ but because that's what we're instructed to do.

Christianity isn't this giant legalist community where people just follow a bunch of laws because some guy up there said so. Christianity is about living in the covenant of grace in which God has allowed us to experience through the life, death, and resurrection of His son, Jesus. Once we have lost sight of this, the devil has effectively won. Gone is the desire to worship God, to serve Him, and to become more like Him by glorifying Him through following His commands. What is left is the attitude that we need to do all these thing's otherwise God is going to frown upon us. There is absolutely nothing that we can do to gain favor in God's eyes. If we follow all of the laws and yet break JUST ONE, we are guilty of breaking the law in its entirety. It is through grace, not legalism, that we will one day enter in the presence of our God and praise Him for eternity.

With each passing moment, I find that I my debt becomes greater but so does God's grace.