When we are guilty of one sin, we are guilty of them all. James 2:10 says, “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking it all.” If you tell a lie but do everything else just right, and you judge someone else who is steeling and fornicating, you might as well be steeling and fornicating as well.
But the good news is because of what Jesus did on the cross, we are forgiven of all our sins. That also means we can’t claim to be righteous by the good works we do and I would think that the closer you become to being like Jesus, the harder it is to stay humble. We all want to think of ourselves as doing well, but the truth is that All have sinned and fall short. So we are all equally guilty and we are all equally forgiven, if we ask, a humbling thought.
There is a story about three guys standing on the pier at Huntington beach. The first guy ran a bit and jumped straight out into the ocean. He yelled up, “Hey, I did pretty good!”
The second guy stepped back and ran a few feet and jumped out and again, straight into the ocean just farther then the first guy, he yelled, “I did better!”
The third guy got quite a bit of a running start and then out and down into the ocean. He boasted, “I did the best!”
One of the on lookers yelled down to the men, “What are you doing?”
The men yelled back, “We are jumping to Catalina Island.”
When we do good, sometimes we want to boast. But for us to be as good as Jesus, is as hard as trying to jump off Huntington pier to Catalina, Impossible, on our own. Only through the blood of Jesus can we claim to be righteous. So when we get that urge to boast, boast of Jesus and his unequaled goodness and power.
1 Corinthians 1:30 and 31, “It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus , who has become for us wisdom from God- that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption therefore, as it is written: let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
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