No One is Good.

Rom. 3:10-12: “As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one."

I often hear people say something like, 'why do bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people?'. Well, what makes a person "good" or "bad"?

The Bible says that NO ONE is good. No matter how much of a "good person" you think you are, none of us are good compared to God's standard of perfection and holiness! All of us have fallen short, we are all sinners who need God's grace.

That is why Jesus had to come to die on a cross-not for all of us "good" people, but because we are ALL sinners and evil people by nature who need to be saved.

Just something to think about. Be thankful today that God has mercy on us and does not deal with us as we deserve, but that He sent his Son; his perfect, sinless, GOOD Son to die for us, so that wewouldn't have to keep trying to live up to God's standard of perfection but simply put our faith in Christ!