"Unobtainable"

"But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away." (Psalms 37:20) You really don't want to be on the wrong side of God's goodness; it's just not going to work out so good for you in the end. Here is the thing about God's goodness that the wicked fail to realize: His goodness is meant for them also, but it is unobtainable without asking for it. I know that might sound like it is just way to simple, but that is really what it comes down to when we are talking about those that perish and those that have eternal life; the wicked perish because they are guilty of sin; the righteous have eternal life because they have asked for forgiveness; what a strange concept? ask and receive, or don't ask and perish. When it comes to being a living sacrifice unto God, it is not our righteousness that makes us worthy of His acceptance, it is the righteousness of Jesus Christ that the Father accepts; we do however survive the fire as meat worthy of eating, which is an example of what our works are when we are in Christ; while the works of the wicked are like the fat, which is burned up into nothing because they are not done in Christ, and not performed in righteousness. What a difference a little bit of God's goodness makes, don't you think? As a matter of fact, a little bit of God's goodness is far greater than all the greatness of man; but the wicked can not see it that way, because they fail to realize the need that they have for just a little goodness that God has set aside just for them. What that little bit of goodness actually is, is that Jesus can change them from being the fat that is consumed, into the meat that is accepted; that is what Jesus has done for us, and that is what Jesus can do for them; but it requires faith in Him to be obtained... "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." (John 3:14-18)