Thursday, September 30, 2021
God’s Law Is Not Compromised By Our Fog
(our wish to hide in the fog of sin)
Nor is God’s Grace For Us Compromised by Our Fog!
Psalm 130:3
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
2 Corinthians 5:19
In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.
Words of Grace For Today
God’s Law is not bendable, not amendable, not sort of obeyable. It is strict, more strict than we imagine … and it is impossible to obey it perfectly. Anything less and we condemn ourselves out of God’s approval, out of heaven on earth, and out of eternal life with Christ.
Our failure to uphold God’s commands does not belong to just some of ‘them’ or ‘to us in the past’. It belongs to each and every one of us each day of our lives, without exception.
So who can stand before God on our own merits? None of us.
And that is the definition of a life of hell each and every day.
Thank God, God works to forgive us, not because we deserve it, but because God wishes to be Gracious to us.
It is God’s choice, God’s will, God’s answer and solution to our inescapable bondage to sin.
As God exercises Grace for us, we get to respond, with the Holy Spirit working in us, to share that same grace with others.
Quite the life we get to live, as God’s adopted children, relying on God’s Grace alone, and enabled to be that Grace for others. Quite the life, indeed, word and in thought.