All-Powerful Grace

Every Christian has come to the understanding that we need to be saved. Our sins weighed down on us, and there is one punishment for sinning; eternal death in heal. Some people, through varying circumstances, have come to realize that their sins are/were a heavy burden, and they are the more thankful to Christ for saving them from their deserved judgment.

But modern Christians, though we experience and appreciate grace, have come to devalue grace. Grace may wash away our sins, but we don't fully appreciate the penalty for our sins, or how deep the stain of sin goes. Grace, especially in a modern, western world, often comes cheaply. We might sin, and then feel bad about it, but thanks to our relationship with Christ, we know that ultimately God will forgive us for whatever we have done. Christians tend to fall into one of two traps in our faith: either Christians tend to lean too heavily on keeping the law and therefore become legalistic (which undermines grace) or people lean too heavily on the promise of forgiveness and continue in sin (which undervalues grace). Arthur Pink says, "It is His own sovereign and all-powerful work of grace toward and in those who are entirely destitute of merit, and who are so depraved in themselves that they will not and cannot take one step to the obtaining of salvation! Those who have been actually saved, owe far more to divine grave, than most of them realize."

Grace is not cheap, and it truly does require an all-powerful God to work out grace in our lives. After all, God does not only offer grace for us, but for all of humanity.

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