None Good

When we look around us, it’s easy to find people who are less good than ourselves. After all, we try hard to do the right things and to make the right choices but, frankly, there are other folks who, well, just don’t do as well. So, compared to them, we must be on the “good” side of the scale, right? It doesn’t matter.

One of those “professional” do-gooders, Paul, who gave up the “profession” after a life-changing encounter with Jesus, declared to his readers in the Bible: “…there is none that doeth good , no, not one.” (Romans 3:12)

And even when we manage to do some “good” things, they don’t really count for much. That is, they don’t really make us “good”. Isaiah said, “…all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags…” (Isaiah 64:6)

Desperate for a way out of this problem, a man sought out Jesus privately hoping that the problem of his dark heart could be found. He too was a professional religious man, plagued by the repeated failings of a dark heart, and the solution that he received in that meeting perplexed him.