God’s mercy has been poured out on us at the cross! That we should be reconciled to God by the blood of Jesus is love most divine. And yet, as Paul inspired by the Holy Spirit writes to the Roman believers, the grace of God is “much more” lavished on us in Jesus giving us His very life!
To think that God showed His love to me in that while I was still a sinner, Christ died for me, stirs the sweetest of love songs in my Spirit. “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His son, much more now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:10) This truth brings up a shout! He not only saved us from our sin but He gave us His very life! And this is the only way to truly live in this life….through the life of Christ in us.
This has to change the way I do my life. It really isnt’t my life, but his. His glorious, resurrected life! His life in me loves and serves my husband, washes the laundry, and cleans the dinner dishes, again. This makes the commonplace, holy.
Not only that, but we have the promise that we can reign in this life! That’s a big word, a kingdom word! That implies a more than “just getting by” life. Your life becomes a “much more” life because of the “much more” grace of God. “Much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.” (Romans 5:17)
That’s a promise for this life, not just heaven. And as God has always initiated and given, it’s ours as we humbly receive it from him.
When I find myself looking or yearning for much more, the Holy Spirit reminds me of this truth, I have already been given so much more!
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