Sunday, April 10, 2011

Go in grace but change your life

Devotion today... John 8:11 says I do not condemn you either. Go, but do not sin again. "Grace is meant to justify the sinner- Grace is never meant to justify our sins. (WOW read that again, good reminder for me) Grace is meant to justify the sinner- Go and sin no more. Grace is never meant to justify our sins- Everything is forgiven, so you can stay as you are. In other words, the grace of God is not a cosmic "get out of jail free " card. Grace is given freely, but it cost Jesus a bloody price to offer it to us: Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13). Grace is given freely, but to walk in grace with Jesus will cost us everything as we join Jesus in "the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing."(Ephesians 2:10) Jesus rescued the woman caught in adultery from certain death, but his expectation was that her life would change immediately. To return to her old life wold have mocked the very grace that Jesus offered her that day. His expectations of a changed life is no different for us. Go in my grace, & sin no more.

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