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  You may fast, observe Lent, go on a pilgrimage, but none of these things will make you better in God’s eyes.  We are told that Jesus is the only one to make us fit to come to the Father.  It is only when we believe that Jesus is the only one who can forgive us, that only He has the power to put us right with God that we can know we are accepted by the Father. We can do absolutely nothing toward our salvation.  Oh yes we have to believe but that also is a gift given to us by the Father.  Why are we so stupid as to keep struggling to put ourselves right.  It can’t be done.  As the Father accepts us He will give us the desire to do good things, but only because we love Him and not to bring about our salvation. Look at Ephesians 1 and 2 and also John 14 verse 6. We have this terrific urge to put ourselves right with God but it can’t be done.  It is human rebellion that wants us to do this.  It is the same rebellion that made Adam and Eve think they knew best when they ate the forbidden fruit in the garden.  Nothing has changed in all those years.  We are still rebelling.  Tell a little child not to so something and what will happen?  They will surely do it. All that talk about man having progressed down the centuries is nonsense, we haven’t improved one bit. Ask God for forgiveness in Jesus and throw away your rebellion.

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