Road Blocks to My Heavenly Father

I can try various avenues to escape God’s judgment. But what blocks my escape down each of these avenues?

I must profess our faith in the grace of God, 

• the only avenue by which I can escape the punishment of sin and still appear before God. 
• That way is Jesus Christ. 

Yet I am inclined to look for some other avenue rather than Christ. 

• I wish to escape God’s wrath and appear before God by traveling down a different avenue, 
• in which it allows me to retain some of his pride. 

However, there is no way that I can retain my pride, 

• because there is no other avenue of escape 
• and no other avenue to the Father besides Jesus Christ. 
• As Christ said, “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

In an earlier post I saw that the avenue of “good works” was closed. 

• I am inclined to think that I can arrive at God’s grace myself, by doing good. 
• Yet I cannot do good works in my own power. 
• I cannot perform what the law of God requires.

There was another avenue that was closed to me. 

• That was the avenue of “innocence.” 
• If I am inclined by nature to all evil, 
• then perhaps I am able to place the blame on God for creating me with that nature. 

However, I learned that God created me good. 

• I cannot place the blame for my sin and misery upon God. 
• I am solely to blame.

But there are other avenues 

• which are closed 
• which I might try to walk down 
• in order to escape God’s wrath. 

To be continued

Adapted Excerpt from Van Delden's Only By True Faith