Debt vs. Grace

What good news. We cannot work enough for salvation. We cannot be good enough. There is freedom in that. A pressure lifted off. If we could work for salvation then God would owe it to us. That negates grace. Salvation is a gift. When we believe on Christ then righteousness is given to us. Then everything we do is in love and out of gratefulness to God and love for God's creation. Not to become righteous. No we could never do that! God does that. Read Romans 4:1-8 carefully. Beautiful.

Romans 4:1-8

1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.

5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:
7 “ Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,

And whose sins are covered;
8 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin.” (or in the Holman Christian Standard Version it says in verse 8: "How happy is the man whom the Lord will never charge with sin!"