in our own efforts. Want to get somewhere in life? Work hard. You’re at school; get the best grades you can. Get into college, study well, and earn that degree. Land that job. Work for that promotion. See that house? Put in the effort and it can be yours. From infancy we are told we can achieve and earn if we just do enough. Yet this doesn’t work in the economy of God. In the Scriptures we are told that “no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law” (Rom. 3:20). No amount
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