“Through Him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we stand” Romans 5 v 2
When God redeemed you and declared you righteous through Jesus Christ, He gave you seven spiritual blessings. Today we are covering the second of these: access to the grace of God.
For the past few months, our family and friends have been praying together daily for a couple of different people who are dear to us and who will soon go before a judge that will make decisions changing their lives forever. Standing undeniably guilty before a judge, your life being completely at his or her mercy is a grave and dire situation, but not one that anyone of us will escape.
There will come a day that you and I will stand in God’s presence and be judged for the lives we live. Not one of us that stand before him will be guiltless. Not even the best of us. We have all sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3 v 23). And we all owe a penalty we cannot pay. Had we been standing before an earthly judge, where justice prevails high above mercy and grace, there would be no hope for us.
But God is neither more merciful than just, nor is he more just than gracious. In God, the attributes of justice, mercy and grace all abound immeasurably and equally; and in His just court, our merciful God has made a way: Jesus Christ. Jesus having paid the penalty on your behalf has fulfilled the justice of God. And when you, Christian, stand before God on judgement day you are pardoned solely on the basis of being His. It is the way He has made for man to be right with God. It is mercy. It is grace.
In addition to justification on judgement day, you have access to God now. When life gives you more than you can handle, you can run into His presence. You can lean on the chest of your heavenly Father. You can cry for help, for love, for tender care.
This is what access to His grace means!
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