By Grace Through Faith!

PRAISE THE LORD!!! This passage causes me to overflow with rejoicing! I love being able to do this on my lunch break. There is so much here in just these 10 verses, I can't begin to touch all of it. Paul is reiterating what he said in Romans 5-8. This passage answers "What does it mean to be saved?" "What did I need saving from?" "How?"

We once had an old master and we served him, following him blindly. "God, being rich in mercy..." shows us again that He was the initiator. He did it because of His GREAT love. I think Paul may be trying to not only remind us that God's love is greater than our sins, but also how much He does truly love us. Any love from God is "great" and undeserved. And it is amazing that a GREAT God would show GREAT love to us. What a loving God to love me a great sinner!!! I am blown away by this, it is making me lose my train of thought :)

It reminds me of Genesis 19 when God sent his angels to rescue Lot and his family from the destruction of the city. Lot and his family lingered, still allured by the worldly things, but here is what I love Genesis 19:6 ..."So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city." What a picture of what Lord did for us years later! He picked us up out of the mire and set us free!

He gave us the power to have faith and trust in His saving grace. "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." May I be faith to do the good works to which I have been called. May I walk in accordance to His Word and plan. May I make my boast only in Him. I have nothing to boast of in myself and everything to boast of in Him. I once was dead, but now I am alive in Him!!! AMEN!!!!!!!