On one hand we must strive with all our efforts to become more like Christ. On the other, we must know that the weight-lifting, game-changing, life-altering, eternally wonderful news that God's love for us, and our salvation, is based on our position as his children, not on our performance.
Ultimately, we must trust God for salvation based on what he's done for us. We wait for it, we wait for God because that is where our salvation comes from. If we base our salvation on our deeds, which doesn't work, then we glorify ourselves and rejoice in ourselves. If we base our salvation on the work of Christ, which alone is sufficient, then we glorify Christ and we rejoice in Jesus.
Do you catch the feelings of relief, deliverance and rejoicing from the below passage from Isaiah? The Lord God is good, let us wait for him, let us rejoice in his salvation!
Isa 25:8-9 (ESV)
8He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. 9It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
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