This is the exact opposite to what Christians actually think! The reason we become Christians is because we know that we are not good people. We make mistakes and do wrong things every single day.

The Bible calls these wrong things “sin”. We know that we cannot stop doing these things or get rid of them by ourselves. The Bible tells us that our selfishness stops us from being close to God. It’s like a barrier between us—and no matter how hard we try, these sins just stick to us and the barrier gets bigger and bigger.

We cannot change ourselves. We need someone to rescue us—someone who can save us from our sinful life and give us a new way to live. That someone is Jesus, and He has taken the punishment for our wrongs instead of us.

Christians know that they were the same as everyone else. Helpless, lost and without any chance of making things better. They are people who have come to Jesus for rescue. Even as Christians they are still sinful, because they still make mistakes. The difference now is that their sins don’t stick anymore; they aren’t a barrier between them and God. Christians are no longer lost; and they have a new way of life with God, rather than without Him . . . but it was Jesus who did it all for them.

So Christians should never think or act better than anyone else.

Romans 7:15: I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

— Kevin, an Our Daily Bread reader