Thoughts for another day
July 12, 2010
Today's verse: Rom. 3:24. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
What have we done to get anything from God? Nothing; absolutely nothing. Our own lives which we call our own are not our own but belong to God. As long as He wants us to live, we do and then He takes us away. Along with our lives, He has instituted the structure of family, thereby giving us parents and siblings. Then He has given us various other things like talents, abilities, etc. which enable us to establish ourselves in our lives and then form the base to start our own families and all the while, it is the Lord Himself who is with us, who prods us and drives us towards the paths He wants us to tread unless we rebel against Him, asserting our own dominion. And even in this God doesn’t interfere for He gave us ‘free-will’ and if according to our free-will we don’t want His companionship, He isn’t about to push it down our throats.
God is simply a God who will be with us only when we want Him and when we invite Him. He has given us everything, from the simplest object to the complicated ones and He never ever throws it at us asserting His right to possess us. When we strayed against Him, He was dejected, but then as a way back to Him, He offered up His Son to atone for our sins by which the access we had to Him was once again bridged.
Jesus Christ, though God Himself, became man and came down to earth and gave us the message of love. He gave us His Grace and justified us before His Father so that through that justification, we attained the righteousness, not our own but of the Son of God, and thus became eligible before the Father. Marvelous is that Grace which makes saints out of sinners. How wonderful it is when a sinner is able to rise and be counted as the King’s emissary. And how great is that access to God Himself which has become so easy because of Grace. Praise our God who so wonderfully enabled us to worship Him. And through Him we can hope in eternal life simply because His Grace flows so richly and makes us eligible.
July 12, 2010
Today's verse: Rom. 3:24. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
What have we done to get anything from God? Nothing; absolutely nothing. Our own lives which we call our own are not our own but belong to God. As long as He wants us to live, we do and then He takes us away. Along with our lives, He has instituted the structure of family, thereby giving us parents and siblings. Then He has given us various other things like talents, abilities, etc. which enable us to establish ourselves in our lives and then form the base to start our own families and all the while, it is the Lord Himself who is with us, who prods us and drives us towards the paths He wants us to tread unless we rebel against Him, asserting our own dominion. And even in this God doesn’t interfere for He gave us ‘free-will’ and if according to our free-will we don’t want His companionship, He isn’t about to push it down our throats.
God is simply a God who will be with us only when we want Him and when we invite Him. He has given us everything, from the simplest object to the complicated ones and He never ever throws it at us asserting His right to possess us. When we strayed against Him, He was dejected, but then as a way back to Him, He offered up His Son to atone for our sins by which the access we had to Him was once again bridged.
Jesus Christ, though God Himself, became man and came down to earth and gave us the message of love. He gave us His Grace and justified us before His Father so that through that justification, we attained the righteousness, not our own but of the Son of God, and thus became eligible before the Father. Marvelous is that Grace which makes saints out of sinners. How wonderful it is when a sinner is able to rise and be counted as the King’s emissary. And how great is that access to God Himself which has become so easy because of Grace. Praise our God who so wonderfully enabled us to worship Him. And through Him we can hope in eternal life simply because His Grace flows so richly and makes us eligible.
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