Embrace the Grace

September 25

God’s unfathomable love for us caused Him to send a Savior who would redeem us from our sin, who would ‘buy us back’ for fellowship with Him and for presenting us blameless before the Throne of Mercy and Grace. Apart from the cleansing we receive when bathed in Jesus’ shed blood, we can have neither.

That is the motivation behind all the works of the Holy One that have transpired through the ages and are recorded in the Scriptures. The sole purpose of the exploits in the behalf of His ancient people, the thread of salvation that is woven through the entirety of the books of the Bible, the life and death and resurrection of Christ is toward the end that mankind be saved.

And once we come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, there can be only one underlying purpose for our lives. Whether we are salesmen or housewives or teachers or physicians or engineers or architects, He wants us to take up the cause for which Jesus laid down His life. He wants us to be messengers who carry the gospel into the workplace as well as celebrate it in the church!

In Romans 1:5 Paul articulates that purpose clearly and his life demonstrated it unmistakably, “We have received grace…through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among the nations on behalf of His name.” When we ‘embrace the grace’ and enfold to our hearts the Gracious One, He then sends us among the lost that we might impart the knowledge of grace to them.