Jason Werner

If you see righteousness as a performance rather than a gift, you're always going to be frustrated. You're going to feel like you're coming up short. Your circumstances are going to overwhelm you. You'll believe there is something you did wrong or something you didn't do right.

It is this performance-based attitude that causes people to believe, When I don't do well, when I fail, God must be mad at me.

Beloved, that is not the case.

God is fully pleased with Jesus. And you are in Christ Jesus if you believe in Him; therefore, God is pleased with you. That is the foundation for everything in your life!

God gives you righteousness, not because of your worship, not because you serve Him, not because of your great sacrifices. He gives you righteousness because of Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21). That is the foundation!

Jesus took your sins on the cross. He took the guilt and punishment for you. And in exchange, He gave you His righteousness (1 Peter 2:24). That is the foundation!