We can’t earn our right standing with God. Even as a Christian, this mentality used to slip into my mind allll the time. I felt like if I needed to do enough things or be good enough to earn God’s favor, to be right with Him. And I knew that it wasn’t based on my works, but still in my day to day, I felt this way.
And what a fresh reminder this passage is “for by works of the law no human being will be justified in His sight.”
Everything I am that is good, everything I have in Christ, all of it – is grace. My right standing with God? Grace.