There really is no getting around the fact that God seems to lay down some pretty lofty and demanding expectations for us to comply with…if we have any hopes or longing to spend eternity with Him. I would even call them ‘unrealistic requirements’. I mean, really…listen to some of these familiar phrases we have read in scripture: “Go and sin no more.” (John 5:14; 8:11). “Be Holy in all your conduct, for I am holy…” (1 Pet. 1:15-16) “Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” (Matt.5:48) “I give you this commandment to love others as I have loved you.” (John 15:12; 13:34) And let’s not forget those reminders that despite whatever impressive ‘works for God’ we may do and accomplish over the span of our lives, if we have not been perfected in His love, then all of our works are for ‘naught’, and profit us nothing. If we learn nothing else from Matt. 7:21-23 and 1 Cor. 13:1-8, it should be this. Didn’t Jesus say in multiple places that we cannot be His disciple unless we are w...