Inadequate

I feel like God has been teaching me a lesson. I know I have said this before but in the last few days and weeks I feel that God has really been trying to impress this on my heart. No matter how many righteous acts I do, no matter how many things I "get right", no matter how humbled I may feel or be, no matter how well or not well I lead discussion in my small group, it will never be enough. Even on my best of days, my inadequacy is more than I will ever be able to make up for. Isaiah 64:6 says, "All our righteous acts are like filthy rags to God". No matter how many rules we try to keep to feel good about ourselves, our hope must always be in Jesus' perfection through the cross. I love this statement by Matt Chandler, "Our hope must never be in our moral expectation, but only in the cross of Christ". I will finish with a statement from Paul, "What a wretched man I am...Who will rescue me from this body of death. Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!