26TH OCTOBER, 2013 MORNING DEVOTION: AMAZING GRACE, SIN AND RIGHTEOUSNESS PART 2. TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9) Grace is God’s unmerited favor, extended to mankind regardless of our good or bad works; regardless of our right or wrong behaviour.By grace you are saved, through faith. Just a few verses before our opening scripture, Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:4-5 “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved) What is your response to the tremendous truth about the grace of God? The appropriate response should be faith. By grace you are saved, through faith. We should believe in what He has done. We should put our faith in what He has done. We should trust in what Jesus has done. We should rest in what He has done. If we, as believers, would ever wholly embrace the grace of God and free ourselves from a law and works mentality, it would be impossible for acts of sin to have any part in our lives. “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” (Romans 6:14) If sin is having dominion over us, it is because we are still under law in our thinking (though God himself is dealing with us by grace). If we would ever agree with God and simply embrace His grace, it would be impossible for sin to have any dominion over us. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.” (Titus 2:11-12) It is only the grace of God that can teach us how to deny ungodliness and worldly lust. If we try to live under a law mentality by our own strength, sin will continue to have dominion over us. If we would embrace God’s grace, God’s unmerited undeserved love for us would lead us into a perfect expression of His righteousness in our lives. The grace of God is what God has already done for us. He has already laid all our sins on Jesus. Jesus has already purged us from all of our sins. Furthermore, God has laid the righteousness of Christ upon us. He sees us, as believers, as perfectly righteous before him, as though sin had never existed. How do we respond to this good news of God’s grace? By grace you are saved, through faith. By placing our faith, trust and dependence wholly upon Jesus and his finished work, and we receive for ourselves the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, and through God’s grace we reign in life (Rom. 5:17) Today’s Response Thank you Lord for your amazing grace at work in my life and that of my loved ones in Jesus Name,Amen.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 06:45:59 +0000
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