Hope for the Helpless

"Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD?
And who shall stand in His holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart
Who does not lift up his soul to what is false
And does not swear deceitfully.
He will receive blessing from the LORD
And righteousness from the God of His salvation.
Such is the generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek the face of the God of Jacob."
Psalm 24:3-6

I don't have a chance, do you?

Clean hands? No.

Pure heart? Not a chance.

Never following any sinful desires? Not even for a whole day.

Always tell the truth and always with pure motives? No way.

But I want to be in God's presence. I want to receive blessings from God.

But there's no way. I might be good for a few minutes...or seconds. But always?

I'm a sinner through and through. And you are, too.

This is quite a dilemma.

God has given us a desire to fellowship with Him. He has given us the requirements for fellowship with Him. Yet, when we look at ourselves and compare them with the standards, there is no chance that we'll ever be in fellowship with Him.

But there is a solution to this dilemma.

"For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Cor 5:21).

God made Christ to be sin, although He had never sinned. That's amazing.

So that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. That's double amazing.

Christ made an exchange. He had never sinned, but He became sin.

We had only sinned, but we can become the righteousness of God.

The sinless Son of God became sin. The sinful sons of men become righteousness.

That doesn't sound fair at all. And it's not.

It's grace.

Christ took what we deserved to give us what we don't deserve. He made it possible for us to have the fellowship with God for which He had created us. He made it possible for us to receive blessings from God.

Nothing that we have done. Everything that He has done.

"Amazing Grace -
How sweet the sound -
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found;
Was blind but now I see!"