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How Do You Rank?
How would you rank yourself on a scale of goodness? Or how would you even measure that scale?
1 Timothy 1:15, Luke 5:31
How would you rank yourself on a scale of goodness? Or how would you even measure that scale? Would you compare yourself to the liars, the thieves, adulterers, the mass murderers and come out on top by comparison?
It can be easy to compare ourselves to other people, but it can also be dangerously unhealthy. The Apostle Paul, in his letter to Timothy, plays a sort of comparison game as well. He says
This saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,” of whom I am the worst. (1 Timothy 1:15 EHV)
And Paul plays this comparison game with the rest of the world, and he concludes that he is the worst of sinners. And indeed, Paul was a pretty bad guy. He was a blasphemer, a persecutor and murderer of Christians. He was deserving of terrible punishment. And yet he is the exact person whom Christ Jesus came to save.
Whatever sins have caused you to feel like you are the worst. Whatever sins have caused you to compare yourself with others and fall short. Those are the sins that Christ Jesus came into this world to die for. My friends, Christ came into this world to save sinners. Even Jesus himself says
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. (Luke 5:31 NIV)
Christ came to save the sick. He did not come into this world, die by punishment on the cross, and rise triumphantly from the dead, because you were so great, but because you weren’t. And through faith in Christ Jesus, he takes your worst title and he gives you his title of perfection. You are a child of God because of what Jesus has done for you. To God be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
