Grace, Grace

Day 30- Grace, Grace

ROM 5:20-21 NIV

The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Oh, what an amazing grace we have received from God. Indeed, sin came in through Adam, and all generations of men since Adam have been born in sin. We could not do much about our birth status, but the gift of Christ has settled our life status.  We did not know too much about Adam's sin, but we know all about the free gift of life that God has given us through Jesus Christ.

Basic foundation- God needed to regulate the affairs of man when man had sinned. He gave us laws and rules to govern our conduct and conversation, but because there was a sin-problem, obedience was difficult. The law itself did not have a problem, but because it was given in a regime of sin and rebellion towards God, it was not possible for sinful man to willingly obey the rules. We established yesterday that a man under the control of the flesh can never please God. No wonder laws have not been able to successfully modify man's behaviour or compel him to obey God of his own free will. The more laws we have, the more lawless our society has become. This is because the law does not and cannot address a problem that it does not understand. Sin was in the world long before the law was given. Only an offering that was before sin could solve the problem of sin, and only the son of God himself fulfilled those conditions.

No wonder, then, that it is only through the grace of God that we can overcome sin.