Amazing Grace!

Yesterday morning I was up with the birds, as usual. I flipped on Joseph Prince. While I don't watch every morning, he usually has a one-liner that captures my attention when I do. I don't even remember the bulk of his message, but this is what stuck with me: "put your faith in grace, not in sin." He referenced the Romans passage, Rom 5:20 "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." Wow! It was as though I had never heard that before. You know what it's like - did someone pencil that in while I wasn't looking or what? How many times I've read that passage and never heard it as I did yesterday!

I realized that I've been putting my faith in sin, not grace. So has most of the church, frankly. We are so sin-conscious, it's pathetic! It's not God's amazing grace that keeps me awake at night, but all the ways I sin or have messed up. Grace is God's idea and His standard. He doesn't want me to be sin-conscious, but grace-conscious. How liberating is that!? I can live in perfect confidence that grace always excedes my sins and shortcomings! I can never exhaust it or outrun it. It will always be the frontrunner, and will be so at the finish line. Hallelujah! How great is our God!!