Because it flies in your face if you want to get any kind of credit. And it flies in your face if you want to hang onto anything except Jesus and the cross to get to heaven or to live pleasing God. And you were born wanting credit. Credit for being good, for doing the right things, for avoiding the wrong things, for being better than someone else, for joining the right church -- credit somehow someway for something. And you can’t hang on to a bit of it.
It’s very challenging even to a small ego to give Jesus 100% credit for everything and to not take just a tiny one percent. C’mon, one percent? That’s offensive if you can be so humble that you only expect one percent and even that’s too much. But it is.
It takes something supernatural for someone to say, yeah, Jesus and the cross, that’s what I want, and not only want but gotta have.
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