What do I deserve?

I work hard I deserve to drive an expensive car.
I spend 45+ hours at work each week, I deserve to have dinner on the table when I get home.
I went to college for 5 years, obtained a difficult degree, I deserve some respect.
I deserve to have this car lane, how dare someone cut me off.
I, I, I.

Let’s talk about what I really desrve.

A Christian understands at the fundamental level, what we deserve. I say that because a Christian will understand that any individual "deserves" the wrath of God. If we solely look at our own merits we realize that we are evil in nature and fall well short of the glory of God. The Bible says "There is none righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God; all have turned aside, together they have become useless; there is none who does good, there is not even one." Romans 3:10-12 and "For the wages of sin is death." Romans 6:23.
Oh, but what a sad story (or life) that would be if it finished there! That's the thing, we just have to start there... Because without the sad news and bad news there would be no Good News. The Good News is this: Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, came to the earth and actually lived a life with out fault. Therefore he is the only one who actually deserved anything good from his merits. But what happened to him? He was crucified. The only one to ever walk this earth who was without fault, was put to death in the most excruciating, horrible, painful way you can imagine. He payed the "wages of sin" without deserving it.
He was laid in the ground for 3 days, but by the power of Spirit of God, he rose from the dead conquering Death.
So what does that do for us? I didn't give the last half of Romans 6:23, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Eternal life is the opposite of death, so what Jesus did for those who believe in him, is he took the death and wrath from God that our merit deserves and he took that upon himself on the Cross. When he did that those who believe became justified before God. Jesus took the sins of believers on himself, and gave them his righteousness.
So now we still deserve God's wrath, but Jesus has taken what we deserve! He paid our debts, so now we don't have to pay the debt of death, insted we are given the gift of eternal life!

Rom 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath {of God} through Him.
Rom 5:10
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

What an amazing story it is! And YOU can have that same gift of eternal life.

Rom 10:8
But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART"--that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
Rom 10:9
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus {as} Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
Rom 10:10
for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

Confessing Jesus as Lord of your life, and forsaking all else is our part in being declared righteous before God.
I have experienced this truth in my own life and I deeply desire that you would put your faith in Jesus (trust him) to save you from the wrath of God which we all deserve.

For further explanation this is a good, well written article regarding this subject.