God invited us into life. Those are penetrating and evocative words. Perhaps those words seem almost unimaginable to the human mind. The author of our very existence is a God of grace inspired invitation. There are many descriptors for the life that we are all invited to enter. New birth, regeneration, forgiveness and unmerited mercy are all apt views of new life in and through Jesus Christ. Arguably, there is another definition of a God breathed life. The life we are invited to enter is God’s Kingdom in creation. The Kingdom that was proclaimed on that day of Resurrection. The Kingdom that was revealed in Jesus Christ, the very incarnation of grace. As amazing as that sounds, our new life in Christ is about building God’s Kingdom by reflecting God’s grace. Not just at selected times but always and everywhere. By faith we accept that invitation. And, then we need to get out of God’s way. Now that is genuinely Good News. Blessings, Pastor Tom Romans 5:21 (MSG) All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.
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