This morning, I was thinking about something I should be doing. I was thinking about how nobody else would know or care that I hadn't done it yet, but somehow I still felt guilty. Immediately, James 4:17 came to mind. "He who knows the good he ought to do, but does not do it, sins." And, on the heels of that thought was annoyance. I can't win for losing. It's sin if I do the bad things. It's sin if I don't do the good things. Opportunities to sin abound in such a way that I just can't seem to escape them. God, you just made it too hard for me!
At that point, I guess He'd had enough of my whining because I was swiftly reminded of a very important Truth: It's not about me.
What was it I blogged just yesterday? The same King who determined the price of my sin also provided the payment for my sin. Salvation begins and ends with Him. "You did not choose me, but I have chosen you ..." "We love because He first loved us ..."
Yes, it's true, there are countless ways for me to daily transgress against a Holy God. The Law is there to make sure I understand what the standard is and just how far short I fall of meeting it. "But, thanks be to God who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins ... BUT GOD, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ ..."
Sin abounds. It's there whether I willfully choose it, stumble into it, negligently commit it. But, grace abounds so much greater. Grace. Undeserved and freely given. Grace, greater than all my sin. Grace that begins in and proceeds from the heart of God. It is NOT about me, but I am so thankful it flows over me.
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