I was reading John Calvin's " Institutes of the Christian Religion" last night and in Volume 1, Chapter 8, Section 58 which was discussing how some people try to rank sins and treat some sins as not so bad. I read:

"we have been commanded to 'love God with all our heart, with all our mind, and with all our soul'. Unless, then all the powers of the soul are intent on loving God, we have already abandoned obedience to the law. For the enemies who rise up in our conscience against his Kingdom and hinder his decrees prove that God's throne is not firmly established therein."

This should remind us all that "there is none righteous, no not one", that we "all fall short of the glory of God" and that we can't earn our way into heaven by "good" works. Only Jesus is truly good and we rely on his goodness for our salvation and eternity. Whether we are Christians or not, our measure should always be the Bible and Jesus, not other people. Although we can always find someone worse than us, we can't even get close to the goodness of God.

Thank God for his work of grace on the Cross.

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