Better Than We Deserve

“He hath not dealt with us after 

our sins; nor rewarded us according 

to our iniquities.”  -Psalm 103:10 [KJV]

 

Mankind naturally thinks in terms of deserving.  All of us want strict justice and fairness when we have been wronged, yet before God, strict justice would mean condemnation.  Every sin is committed against a Holy God, and the true wage of sin is death (Romans 6:23).  If God dealt with us strictly according to what we have earned, none could stand before Him.  

 

Yet the Gospel announces astonishing news: God has not treated His people as their sins deserve, nor rewarded them according to their iniquities. He has shown mercy through Jesus Christ. At the Cross, justice was not ignored; it was satisfied. Christ bore the punishment sinners deserved, so that believing sinners could receive the righteousness and favor they never deserved. So again, we see that salvation is in, by, and through Jesus Christ alone.  

 

 

-preacher David Eddmenson

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