God didn’t retract His requirement to live pure and holy. It’s so important to Him that He made a way for us to actually pull it off.
Jesus was never meant to be an excuse for living sloppy lives. Not even close.
He is the only man to ever live a perfectly righteous life. And He offered Himself as a sacrifice so we could trade our sinful selves for His righteousness.
This divine trade makes us the very righteousness of God. We are completely forgiven, and the power of sin is broken.
If sin is still a burden in your life, you need to awaken to the fact that it no longer has power over you.
Sure, it will still try to woo you into its trap. But you should just chuckle every time it tries and say, “No way. Your power no longer has an effect on me. I’m the righteousness of God in Christ. And for every temptation, He provides a way out. This is me, taking my way out.”
