This morning, I was meditating on the fact that the Bible says that God justifies the ungodly.  Many people think that they can earn their way to heaven by being good, by not committing any felonies, or by being a good husband or a good wife or a good father or a good mother.  They think that surely God will see their good deeds and be satisfied.
Scripture says that God justifies the ungodly.  God sees your sin and knows your sin.  God justifies those sinners who see their see, admit their sin, repent of their sin, turn to God for forgiveness of their sin, and trust in Christ who paid for their sin.  Go to God repentantly and look to Christ for salvation.
 
Here is a sermon that I recently enjoyed listening to during my daily workout...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsTbidDaacE
 
Romans 3:1-8   What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.  5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered;  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.