-Safe by Keeping the Law?

-BIBLE MEDITATION:
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23

-DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
Suppose you're driving down the road and a police officer stops you for running a red light. And you say to the officer, "I ran a red light, but you have no right to give me a ticket because I stopped at all the other streets and I have obeyed the speed limit."

He responds, "Don't tell me about all the things that you've done good. You've broken the law."

If you think you're going to be saved by keeping the law, then you must keep all of it, because God demands perfection. No amount of obedience can make up for one act of disobedience. If you keep the whole law and yet offend in one point you are guilty of it all.

-ACTION POINT:
(Read Romans 7:1 to 8:4). Can you relate to Paul's quandary about keeping the law and the war within his members concerning its requirement of absolute obedience?
-----
So what do I do now? If you have not yet asked Jesus to come into your heart, please do it today, don't wait, you may not be here tomorrow.

-Romans 10: 9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
"For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." (NASB)