Everystudent & Instant Messaging

You know, it always amazes me how many people have been duped into believing that good morality is the judging factor on salvation. "Live a life where the good outweighs the bad and you'll go to heaven"...UGG! I wish I didn't hear that so much! If you've actually dug into the Bible even the smallest bit, you'll see how blatant of a lie that is. It's sad that grace is such as foreign concept to so many people.

Today I had a pretty long conversation with a student online via Everystudent.com's new instant messaging feature. (Side note - if you haven't seen the feature yet, it's pretty cool. It allows us to talk to students in real time over the net instead of emailing back and forth. I'm hoping it catches on with students. It works pretty smoothly.)

Anyways, the student I talked with today had the same views on morality and salvation. Even after working him through the logical arguments of how morality fails in judgment and how it is only through grace that we are saved, he still couldn't walk away from the entrenched notion in his mind that somehow he had to be good enough to earn his salvation. He liked the idea of grace, but just couldn't get it through his head that that was all that was needed to be right with God. Ugg, sometimes it gets so frustrating!

Why do we as humans latch onto the idea of morality for salvation so much? I think it has to do with something rooted in our pride. We don't want to think that there is absolutely nothing we can do to merit salvation. In a world where you work for everything and independence is commonplace, dependence on grace so absurd. Our pride wants to earn it's way to heaven and not rely on anyone else to get us there. How unbiblical and scary that notion is! I really hate the way Satan twists things and tells lies in order to stoke people's pride and get them to believe in wrong things and false doctrine.

It's truly amazing though when someone actually has the blinders fall off their eyes and they actually see grace for the first time. I've seen it in others. I've been through it myself as a college freshmen. It's truly an incredible working of God. It's what honestly keeps me going in telling others the truth of the Gospel even when it gets absolutely frustrating. You never know who God will take the blinders off...