Scripture to Read: Romans 3:24
Yesterday God taught us about His righteousness and justification and how we have both of them through Christ our Lord. Both God’s righteousness and justification are freely given to every follower of Christ as gifts. The reason followers of Christ receive these gifts of righteousness and justification is because of God’s precious, undeserved, magnificent grace. As someone has beautifully laid out, grace is “God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense.” As already mentioned, God’s grace is precious because His grace reminds us of His precious love for us. God’s grace is undeserved, which means we could never do enough to be able to gain God’s grace apart from Him freely giving His grace to us. God’s grace is magnificent because it is by God’s grace that we receive “the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people), 19 and [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe” according to Ephesians 1:18–19 (Amplified Version). God has made all of this ours because of His incredible grace. Some people fear that God’s grace gives people the freedom to sin, but just the opposite is true. When we, as followers of Christ, fully understand God’s grace, we want to stay as far away from sin as we can. We instead desire to passionately pursue our intimacy with God and His Word so that no matter what temptations we face, they pale in comparison to all we have in Christ.
Challenge & Application
What did you learn about God’s grace today that you did not fully comprehend before?
How will you tell others about God’s grace, which is offered to them through a relationship with Christ?
Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!