What a slap in the face to Kylo Ren it must have been to hear Supreme Leader Snoke tell him “My disappointment in your performance cannot be overstated.”
Maybe Snoke was trying to generate fear and anger in Kylo since Yoda told us that “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Often people believe that when they do not live up to God’s holy and perfect standard that He does not love us and that He is disappointed with us.
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.”
Ours 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. 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 our good works.
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 a believer, what good works has God prepared for us to do?
How will we walk towards doing them today?
