Our Worth in Christ Alone

In a Christian culture saturated with self-esteem counsel and practical theology that subtly makes much of you and little of God, it is refreshing to read the following words from Jon Bloom, Executive Director of Desiring God Ministries, in his April letter to DG supporters:

To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ [2 Peter 1:1].

….[W]e ordinary Christians have obtained a faith of equal standing with Peter’s? Absolutely yes! There is nothing ordinary about the faith we’ve received. It has been given to us as a gift from the Lord Jesus, the same Lord who gave Peter his faith.

Peter had no illusion about who he was. He was an ordinary man chosen by an extraordinary Savior to fulfill and extraordinary calling through the power of an extraordinary Spirit. All that had made Peter extraordinary had come to him as a gift of grace from God. Apart from Jesus he was nothing. That’s why when Cornelius fell at his feet and worshiped him, Peter quickly pulled him up and said, “Stand up; I too am a man” (Acts 10:26).

The same amazing Savior has chosen you, cleansed you from all your sin, given you his perfect righteousness, and filled you with his Holy Spirit. “What the Lord has made clean, do not call uncommon” (Acts 10:15). Jesus has made you extraordinary, more than you know. Jesus has called you by name, appointed you to faithfully steward a particular calling, has a unique name for you that only he knows, and has prepared a place in his eternal kingdom especially for you. Peter considers you a peer, his sibling in God’s family.

Praise the Lord that we, the utterly unworthy, find our identity, life, hope and calling in the unsurpassed worth and power of the Lord Jesus! Gospel blessings as you serve our Lord today.