16/08/2024
Rev Bheki Sibanda
Daily Grace Inspiration
GOD IS SATISFIED WITH YOU THROUGH CHRIST JESUS.
“To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”
— Ephesians 1:6 (KJV)
There are times we think about our relationship with God and our desire will be knowing ,“Is He satisfied, is He satisfied, is He satisfied with me? Have I done my best? Have I stood the test? Is He satisfied with me?”
Let me just say that ten out of ten times when we ask ourselves these questions we would always believe that God is not satisfied with us. When we look to ourselves, all there is to see is the inadequacy and futility of our ability and performance. In and of ourselves, we will never meet God’s standard for Him to be satisfied with us. We will always fall short!
You can imagine how condemned we feel each time we ask ourselves these questions After all, we had never been taught that God was satisfied with His Son's sacrifice at the cross, and we did not understand what the new covenant of grace was all about. Sometimes we become zealous for God, but defeated by our lack of knowledge.
On the new covenant of God’s unmerited favor. It's not about what you must perform, it's not about what you must do to and what you must achieve for God to be satisfied with you.
But the question to ask today is not if God is satisfied with you. The question that we need to ask is this: Is God satisfied with the cross of Jesus? And the answer is this: He is completely satisfied!
At the cross, our acceptance is found. There, Jesus cried out with His last breath, “It is finished!” (John 19:30) The work is complete. The full punishment for all our sins was exacted on Jesus at the cross. God will not punish the believer again, not because He has gone soft on sin, but because all our sins have already been punished in the body of Jesus. God’s holiness and His justice are now on your side!
Today, God is not assessing you based on what you have or have not done. He is assessing you based on what Jesus has done. Is God satisfied with Jesus today? Yes, of course He is! Then, to the same extent that God is satisfied with Jesus, He is satisfied with you.
God’s own Son had to be crushed at Calvary for this blessing to become a reality in your life. The gift of His unmerited favor and His righteousness is only a free gift for you today because the full payment for this gift was exacted upon Jesus’ body.
The cross made all the difference! Don’t let anyone hoodwink you into thinking that you need to pay for your own sins. Don’t let anyone deceive you with the lie that your eternal salvation in Christ is uncertain and shakable! Christ died in our place, he suffered in our place so that we can see how he loves us. We are saved by Grace alone through Christ alone.
He paid it all. Salvation is not for sell but a graceful gift of God to all humanity