Man's greatest need is not money, not power or prestige, not even life.
Man needs acceptance. The bigger word, the more imposing word, is righteousness.
We were meant to be in God's likeness. We walk around trying to create this likeness through our efforts and affiliations.
Yet only through Christ can we be received back into the image, the likeness, the family in which we were made.
Man's greatest need is acceptance. We need to know that we are OK. We need an identity that is stable, certain, which shores us up and supports us. This identity has to be eternal, since God has placed in us eternity.
God has provide the Way, through His Son Jesus Christ, that we may have the life, and that more abundantly.
Man's greatest need is acceptance, or righteousness.
Jesus told His hearers during His earthly ministry about the importance of righteousness:
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matthew 6: 33)
This righteousness is more than a good standing; it's the perfect standing which Jesus has now, resurrected in full glory at the right hand of the Father:
"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" (Ephesians 2: 6)
and
"1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3: 1-4)
and of course:
"17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17)
The acceptance, the eternity, the eternal security and certain that we seek, we find in Christ.
Man's greatest need: eternal acceptance. God's solution: Christ Jesus.
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