Thursday, October 06, 2005

Free Grace

“Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:” 1 Corinthians 1:3

We are saved, righteous, pure, holy, perfect, powerful, glorified, and free from sin because our Father loves us and because He has freely justified us through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! God loves us so much that in Psalm 8:4 the psalmist writes, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? God has created us in His Own image, He now calls us His children, and God proudly proclaims that we are now one with Him. We are saved and now have eternal life because God favors us and only through His grace have we been made this way! Works are only a byproduct of our justification and unity with God. It is no longer by our works, as it was in the Old Testament, that we are united and have fellowship with God; it is by His grace, His free and unmerited grace! Today is the day of our salvation and now is our appointed time to be fully used by God, so that He may abound through us in every situation!

This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice for He has made us glad! Because today is the day that God will freely exert His influence on our souls and cause us to walk in His statutes and keep His judgments. Today is the day that we have the very Holy Spirit of God leading us in all Truth and showing us things to come! Today we are no longer servants, but sons, sons of the Most High. And today we have peace that passes all understanding because today we have the joy of Jesus as our strength! We are no longer just men, we are now new creatures in Christ. All old things have passed away for us because through Christ all things have become new for us. These are the things that have been given us; these are the things of God’s free grace.

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