It is by grace you have been saved.
—Ephesians 2:8
Do you ever wonder if you’re good enough to go to heaven?
You aren’t.
That’s why you must depend on God’s righteousness, not yours. “For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed” (Rom 1:17). Not a righteousness of your own, “but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God” (Phil 3:9).
When you responded in faith to the gospel, God declared you righteous. You were not made righteous but declared righteous.
The righteousness of Christ was “credited” to your account (Rom 4:24). “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor 5:21).
Good enough to go to heaven? No!
Going to heaven because of his grace? Yes!
Grace met you where you were,
but it didn’t leave you where it found you.