Thoughts for another day

Oct. 5, 2012.

Today's verse: Ro. 3:23, 24. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Today, as we talk of Grace, which we find in our Scripture, let us before anything understand Grace in the perspective of a fallen creation.  Every human being, no matter who he is, born of the seed of man, after Adam, is corrupt and a sinner falling short of God's glory.  In that state, there's nothing he can do to attain unto the kingdom of God for even a single stain, were it even the stain of Adam's sin, isn't permitted to stand before the awesome holiness of God who is so pure, as to repel the slightest taint.

But God wants all of us to come to enjoy His companionship in His Kingdom by being washed clean of the stain within us.  So therefore, even before the foundation of the world, He gave His Son Jesus Christ by whose innocent and blemishless blood, many who take Him as the Savior of the world, are saved.  God gave Grace in abundance which, though we didn't deserve it, becomes ours when we accept His Son Jesus Christ and in the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  God's Grace, His favor, His hand of friendship, is abundant and free and flows unceasingly into our hearts as we repent from our sinful lives and pledge before God to live according to His commandments, according to His path set generations ago, by the giving of the law to the children of Jacob, Israel. 

It's difficult to understand Grace for who can understand the ways of the Holy and Immortal God.  Jesus Christ is the personification of God's Grace and in Him and through Him; men are drawn to the mansions on high.  Grace comes to us in least expected ways and though we receive and are full of it, it's yet difficult to explain what really happens as our lives twirl around the Grace of God.  Then our lives which were so base suddenly look up and there's new hope kindled within us.  When Grace comes and is accepted, life is changed and it's not of man but God whereby our nature is changed into His.  Through which also, we who strive to look into the treasure of heaven now suddenly find ourselves in the midst of that treasure and we realise our goal is not to be of the world, but out of the world and to be in union with our Lord and God, Jesus Christ.  Hail Grace by which lives are transformed and by which men live.  Oh, amazing Grace.