Romans 4:5 However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

1. Too often we treat our relationship with God as if it is based on ____________ and ____________.

2. It is the height of sin to think if we do what God ____________ He will ____________ us.

3. God wants to relate to us through the ____________ ____________ of Jesus.


Scripture Readings
Exodus 16:2-15
Ephesians 4:1-16
John 6:22-35


Take It With You!

Here are some further thoughts to help you contemplate and living the life as a baptized child of God!

There is, moreover, another false worship. This is the greatest idolatry that we have practiced up until now, and it is still rampant in the world. All the religious orders are founded upon it. It involves only that conscience that seeks help, comfort, and salvation in its own works and presumes to wrest heaven from God. It keeps track of how often it has made endowments, fasted, celebrated Mass, etc. It relies on such things and boasts of them, unwilling to receive anything as a gift of God, but desiring to earn everything by itself or to merit everything by works [done beyond what God expects], just as if God were in our service or debt and we were his liege lords. What is this but to have made God into an idol - indeed, an "apple-god" (that is, a sham god) - and to have set ourselves up as God?

Martin Luther, The Large Catechism: The First Commandment