Grace is Unbelievable, Really. Romans 5.19-21

Marvelous grace of our loving Lord,

    Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt!

        Yonder on Calvary’s mount outpoured,

            There where the blood of the Lamb was spilt.1

Paul writes, ‘For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.  The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more                                    so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’

Lord Jesus, that is unbelievable!  Where sin increases, grace increases all the more?  What might you tell us about that kind of grace—that grace that cost you so much . . .

My grace is free . . . you do not even need a credit card.

 My grace is sufficient for whatever you are facing

  My grace is bountiful enough to cover over a multitude of sins

    My grace is great enough to forgive any debt

      My grace is the fount of everlasting love

        My grace can make a dirty life clean

          My grace can bring hope to a hopeless person

              and to a hopeless situation                 

               My grace offers the promise of eternal life and love

                 My grace makes it possible not to live in fear

                   My grace allows me to ‘forget’ your sin

                      My grace can make you a new creature, and

                         make the old fall away.

                            My grace is a gift to you, but it won’t be yours

                                 unless you receive it.

                                   My grace became a person: Jesus.

                                      Through my grace, realize that there is nothing

                                        You can do to make me love you less, and

                                           Nothing you can do to make me love you more~

 Friends, your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace either.2 

Christine

podcast:

1 from the hymn, “Grace Greater than our Sin”

2 Jerry Bridges