We're not worth it.

Its a common misconception, a phrase I hear quite often...

"Christ died on the cross for you, you're worth it!"

This phrase is usually used when a believer is trying to encourage another, but it is simply not the truth and not the gospel. 

What makes grace so unbelievably beautiful and yet confusing is the fact that we weren't worth it.

Romans 5:8 says "but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

 That scripture blatantly points out our unworthiness and insignificance. We need to focus on the part that says "that while we were sinners" and try to understand what all that entails. When I read this verse, I do not see any kind of worth in the position of "sinner," because it's not there. There is no worthiness in any of us.

When Christ saved me, I was selfish, unrighteous, continually pursuing evil, without recognition of  my  actions I was simply doing what felt natural, running from God.  There was absolutely nothing inside of me that made me worthy of Gods love, yet He saved me. Not because of my position, but because of His grace. 

You see, its not because were worth it. It's because God is so indescribably loving, good and righteous that He saves us. It does not matter how many "good" things we think we may do in our lives, the bible says our "good deeds" are like filthy rags. (Isaiah 64:6) We're not good people and we're not worth it. But when God performs the miraculous gift of rescue and grace, we become worthy in Christ. God then looks upon His children as righteous, holy and beloved. We are at right standing with God and no longer enemies because we were not worth it, yet Christ chose to die.

You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. - Colossians 2:13


But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved. - Ephesians 2:4-5


In these scriptures I do not once see anything about our doing and our worthiness. Its all about what God has done, because He is rich in mercy and love. That's the gospel.