Think about the depth of God’s Mercy and Grace to us!

Do you ever take time to really think about the abundance of mercy and grave God pour out upon us? It is overwhelming when we really get it!

JC Ryle says “Let us sit down before the picture of sin displayed to us in the bible--and consider what guilty, vile, corrupt creatures we all are in the sight of God.”

Have you ever done that. You need to. Think about who we are before God and it is not a pretty picture. Then to know this next fact the bible tells us:

Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Without holiness we will not see the Lord!!!!! We, in our sins, are not holy!!!!

Thinking on those facts we should come to the realization we need much mercy and grace from God! Here is another quote from JC Ryle: “How true it is that the holiest saint is in himself a miserable sinner, and a debtor to mercy and grace to the last moment of his existence.”

Here is the good news in ourselves we have no hope!!! BUT in Christ we have all the hope we need! Look at this verse:

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

The mercy and grace God has given us comes to a head in Jesus Christ! A free gift of His love for us so that we may become holy and see the Lord! Oh thank you God! 

Oh thank you Jesus for dying for me, a wretched sinner! 

So this day this think about the grace and mercy God showers down on us each day...really I am not sure we can fully grasp it!

Tom