Grace

I was reflecting today on how good God's grace is to us.

Grace is God's love and favor toward us, whereby He forgives us and makes us new creatures in Christ. We work with grace, in that we yield our lives to God for Him to work in and to use us for His good pleasure. But our working with that grace isn't a work we do for salvation--it's a work we do to cooperate with the work that God has already begun in us.

Paul wrote that God, in His grace, forgives our sins and doesn't count them against us--He casts them as far as the east is from the west, the Psalmist wrote.

So we have a new beginning in Christ, the forgiveness of our sins, and eternal life in Him. Our lives are free to serve and enjoy Him. And that's a great thing.



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