After failing to stop the Resistance’s retreat, Snoke contacts General Hux’s ship. Hux plans on taking the call in his chambers, but the giant holographic head of Snoke appears on the bridge.
Slamming Hux to the ground in front of the entire bridge crew, Snoke tells him, “My disappointment in your performance cannot be overstated.” Hux grovels from his knees, trying to convince Snoke that the Resistance cannot escape and are on the end of a string.
Often, people believe that when they do not live up to God’s holy and perfect standard, He does not love them and is disappointed with them.
We can rejoice that God’s love for us is unconditional. It is not based on what we do.
Romans 5:8 tells us that “God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Christianity is not a works-based religion. It is based on the sacrifice of Jesus, as Hebrews 10:10 tells us, “And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
Our faith is based on grace, as Paul tells us in Ephesians 2:8 when he wrote, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.”
While some people see God as an accountant, tallying up our good and evil deeds and then seeing how it balances out in the end. That is not how it works.
God does want us to do good works, but our salvation is not based on them.
Ephesians 2:10 tells us, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
As believers, what good works has God prepared us to do?” How will we walk towards doing them today?
