How often we want to hold God responsible for our predicaments that have actually been caused by our own sins. Yet He’s not the One Who’s to blame simply because He gave us the power of choice, and we then decided to head in a dishonorable direction. It doesn’t matter how clever a defense we…
Tag: grace
Your Sin: Altogether Forgiven Forever ?
What word in any language could be more pleasing to someone guilty of sin than the word “forgiveness”? Is it truly possible that your sin can be altogether forgiven forever? Forgiveness is the essential part of redemption (being freed from the consequences of sin). “…we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according…
“Grace to the Lowly”
“Surely He scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace unto the lowly” (Proverbs 3:34). “…God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:6-7). Scorners lift up themselves, refusing to yield to anyone else, always resisting them. They pay…
A Relationship is More Valuable Than Good Works
Do you ever felt like you are making great efforts to do all of the right things (or at least what you were told were the right things) to please God, yet He still seems distant or unreachable to you? Do you feel that you are missing something in this relationship with Christ? Do you…
No Good Thing
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing….” Romans 7:18 Once we give our life to God, we discover that inside of us there is both the ‘old man’ (that person we were before God saved us), and now the ‘new man’ (that God is making us into)….
Our Best Ambitions Are as Useless as Wet Sand
Have you ever thought about the fact that our own ambitions we do for God are much like building fine castles with handfuls of wet sand? They ultimately prove to be futile, without any lasting merit. It doesn’t matter how much work we do on our own to try to make ourselves right before God….
Jesus is Not a Washing Machine
“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:20-21 I recently visited a historical village near where I was living. It had…