If we try to live a righteous and holy by our strength, then we are sure to fail. This is because just having noble and righteous motives are not enough to live thus. We need to have the grace of God to live righteously with holiness. People who have tried to follow the Bible on their own strength, are the ones who have failed miserably. And have given up Christ-centered living believing it as hard. But people who have understood the full worth of God's grace, are the ones who have realized, that a righteous and holy life in the Lord can be lived only by receiving the sufficient grace from the Lord.
Rev. Selwyn Hughes says when God gives us a holy command He also provides us with the sufficient grace to follow it. It is up to us whether we depend on God to give us the grace to follow them or try to do with our own self-achieving attitude.
Apostle Peter testifies about this grace in 1 Pet 5:12 (NIV)
...I have written you briefly, encouraging you and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.
So let us depend on God's grace to be all that we have to be, to do all that is required of us and to live spotlessly and blamelessly for the One who called us by His grace.
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