Quickened to Life

November 5

There are some things that simply cannot be expanded upon from the way they are stated in the immutable Word of God. Perhaps nothing in His Word can be explained or clarified or extended in any meaningful way, although people like me endeavor in our frail way to do so.

One of those beautifully complete passages is found in Romans 3:23-26 where Paul says, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, but, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has established to be the propitiation for our sin through faith in His blood, we are made clean…

“The remission of our sins is accomplished through the great forbearance of God. Because of the cleansing blood of Jesus, I say, ‘He is righteous and Jesus is the justifier of all who believe in Him.’” Everyone who hears or reads and grasps the magnitude of these words realizes that he is the recipient of an amazing gift!

Anyone who will appropriate the promise of this passage to himself will find himself transformed! He will be new. He will be clean. He will be forgiven. He will be established on God’s path that leads to eternal justification. He who was “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1) is quickened to life! Nothing says it better.