Is Good enough?

Most people have good intentions.  I don't really encounter many people who have a true "mean streak".  So in general, people are Good, but are they Holy?  Consider the Ten Commandments.  Have you broken one this week?  I know I have!  You know the one about working six days and resting one?  Yep, I broke that one all to pieces.  After church, I proceeded to clean the house.  Ok, so it was just a tiny commandment breaker, I didn't do anything awful.  It's not like I stole something or murdered someone! Just a tiny misstep, right?

James 2:10  For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.

Wow!  Guilty of ALL?  I don't think anyone can get through a week or maybe even a day without breaking at least one law.  Did you stay under the speed limit all the way to work?  I'm pretty sure that on most days I drive 35 in the 30 mph zone that runs through downtown.

I think we can agree that we humans are Good but not Holy.  God will allow only those that are Holy into heaven.  I obviously can't be Holy, but because I call Jesus Christ Lord, God will welcome me into heaven.

Hebrews 9:24  For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

Is Good enough?  Jesus is the perfect and only solution to the question.