Have you grown tired of trying to impress God?

Exhausted from checking off spiritual to-do lists

hoping you've finally done enough to earn his smile?

Well, you're not alone.

Chuck Swindall understands the crushing weight of religious performance,

and today on Insight for Living, he'll lift the burden from your shoulders. His permission is

based on a liberating passage in Romans chapter 2. Paul, the writer, exposes the trap that

keeps Christians running on empty, desperately seeking approval they already have.

Are you ready to embrace the spiritual relief

offered by God's amazing grace?

Chuck begins with prayer.

How great is our God.

How great you are.

How full of wonder and majesty.

Takes our breath away, our father,

when we see evidences in nature

before any human being ever puts his or her hand to it,

the awesomeness of your work, the magnificence of the mountains,

and the breadth of the valleys and canyons about us.

The beauty, luxury of trees, and the wilderness, and the vast oceans, the stars numberless above us. How great is our God. It is only right, our Father, that we pause at least a week

out of the year to give you thanks. By him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise

to God continually, that is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

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