follower of him until they took up the most brutal torture device ever invented, the cross?11 One of my favorite verses can be found in the book of Isaiah: “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.”12 We often miss that our “righteous acts” are “filthy” before God. Not just our bad days, but our extremely good days too! Praying, reading the Bible, giving to the poor, and going to church nine times a week? Filthy rags apart from Jesus and his