Month: January 2015

“All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.”

A comparison and contrast between the concepts of sin, the law and grace is covered in these verses.  “Aggressive forgiveness” is what is being offered to us.  Would you be interested?

 

“In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.”

This verse couldn’t have been more timely for me. I needed reminding today about the importance of humility and discipline, and in being relentless in my attempts at being more Christ-like. May it be that we can all take a moment to “pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.”