Amazing Grace #13

 

20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 5)

We talked yesterday about how grace now rules.  Building on this standing we have in Christ, we also find that instead of living under the curse of Adam, we now live under the rule of Grace.  Intertwined with this discussion, Paul has also be talking about the law, and he summarizes his thoughts here: The law came so we would understand what lawbreakers we are. There has been a whole lot of lawbreaking going on; we can look all around us and inside us to see that. But now, we can see a whole lot of grace going on, and God's grace is great enough, and big enough and deep enough to take care of any trespass. As the song writer puts it: it is greater than all our sin. So now grace reigns through what Christ had done, can do, and will do. The result is eternal life. As we saw yesterday, the rule of sin sucks the life out of us, but the rule of grace breaths it back into us, because Christ is the One who breathes life. This eternal life is much more than future; it includes here and now. This is present tense. God wants His grace, and life, to flow in and through us. Sometimes life is hard, and we wonder of we can do another day, but by God's grace we can do today, and any day, forever. Choose today to walk in His grace.