Amazing Grace

The 6/15 verse is Romans 6:15, "What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!" NIV

God's grace. It's so wonderful and amazing. God's grace took the debt of our sin and paid for it with the blood of Jesus Christ. How should we react to such grace? I think the verse above is asking us if we think we can just take that kind of grace for granted and continue to live as we always have and sin as we always have. It goes on to say that would be a negative!

Many of us do just that. We take God's grace for granted. I love the way the Message translates this passage. Verses 15-18 say it much better than I can, "So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you've let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you've started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!"

So, in case anyone is still in the dark, God's grace gives us the freedom not to sin. Going back to our old way of life would just jeopardize that freedom, and I hope I never take that kind of grace for granted.