The grace of God

Consider the grace of God. For our sin, He - Jesus -  could have banished us to outer darkness in a moment. Most will be. He could have vent His anger and fury upon us for our arrogant rebellion and defiance of Him. But instead, in outrageous humility, He took on human flesh, entered our world of sin and suffering, lived a righteous life demonstrating for us what his Kingdom will be like - and it is truly to die for - and then allowed us to nail Him to the cross, to pay the price for all our sin, so that we could come back to God and find forgiveness, and begin to live in right relationship with Him and be heirs of his magnificent Kingdom.

This is the amazing grace of God! The outrage of God's grace is summed up in this great verse from the bible ...  'God who justifies the wicked...' (Romans 4:5). That is an absolute outrage! How can a righteous God be both righteous and justify the wicked? Only God could do that with integrity. Only Jesus would be willing to do that. Only Jesus does that. And Thank God He does,  because in those few words outrageous words are glorious hope for us all. 

How we should marvel and relish in this magnificent, deep, pure and soul satisfying goodness! How we should drink it in and worship Him for it. Giving Him all glory in all things, remembering the reason He did it.. He did what He did that He might be preeminent in everything! (Colossians 1:18). 

Determine today to return His amazing love for you, by giving Him preeminence in everything. Be a man/woman on a mission today. Make it your aim now, that everything you do today honors Him in the best way possible. Every decision, every attitude, every deed and every word you speak, do it in such a way that makes it as clear as possible that Jesus is your God and not the praise and esteem of men, not money or material things, not people, not education, not family, not career - make it as clear to all as possible that Jesus alone is your God, your savior, your joy, your prize, your passion, your everything. Live in such a way that it is clear to all that in your eyes, compared to Jesus, all other things are rubbish (Philippians 3). If you remember these things today and you will live well for your beloved.

If you don't yet know Jesus - man - you are missing out big time. Ask me and I'll tell you why He is so great and how you can know Him and why you - like everyone else need to know Him too.