Have you ever felt like you're trying to climb a mountain that you were never strong enough to climb?

Like you keep trying to be good enough to meet all the expectations, but no matter how hard

you push, the summit just keeps drifting out of reach.

Stay with me for the next couple of minutes, because by the end of this devotional, you're going to see why the pressure to be perfect was never meant to be on your shoulders,

and what it really means to walk through the low door of humility, repentance, and faith

into the grace of God.

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devotionals. The heart of the gospel can be summed up like this. The life we couldn't live,

Jesus lived for us. The death that we should have died, Jesus died for us. And the new life we need, Jesus gives to us.

Those three lines hold a whole universe of truth. They tell us something that is very humbling.

At least it is to me.

I can never live the life that God requires, and either can you.

Not even on our best day, not with the strongest willpower, the most discipline, not with the noblest intentions.

I understand what it feels like to not be good

enough, to try to achieve a sense of worth by being good. But moral perfection, moral

adequacy is a mountain that is just too high for any of us.

Living fully for the glory of God is not something that we can do. It exceeds our natural ability.

Being truly good and truly wise are face facts out of the reach of the self-empowered heart.

The downward drag of our own sin and our flesh makes it impossible.

Every one of us will fall short of God's standard and all of us stand guilty before his judgment

throne. And I'm not going to soften that. We shouldn't. We shouldn't explain it away. We should

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