Righteousness or Arrogance?

 "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,  not of works, lest anyone should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 

   Baby steps. I'm told that's the way to start things. So, as I come back to the blogging world after a busy and chaotic year, I start out with a small post. It was written quickly, posted on the social networking sites, and marks the beginning to a hopefully continuing series of blog posts.

  

  If you read between the lines, (a practice I normally frown upon) you will most likely pick up some the red herrings thrown about that point to how and where the Lord was leading me in this past year while I was absent from the blogging world. So, in effort to be short and to the point, without a lot of expounding on points, I leave you with a simple Facebook post:

  " A sick thought seen displayed on the web is that people who are homeschooled, churched, courted, drug free, drink free and "blemish" free are righteous on their own. 
Let me tell you, coming from a girl who has experienced both private, home, and unschooling, church and no church, courtship and yes dating, drinking, falling short repeatedly and bearing many scars. 
No one thing made me more righteous than the 

other. It was in Christ and Christ alone that I was justified. To Him goes ALL credit. Not my rearing, my circumstances nor my choices. 

'There is never a day when you are so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace, and there is never a day when you are so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.' R.W. Glenn."