Grace Reconciles

Grace.

Our Savior - God in the flesh gave us life never intending we should lose that life, never wanting us to lose our life.

When we chose to disobey God we did so KNOWING the result would be death. We were TOLD the outcome of disobedience.

Still, our Creator did not want us to die. He did not want us to have eternal death, eternal nothingness, never to be again.

For this to happen we would need to comprehend what exactly our Creator is, and what He expects from us.

We are NOT supposed to be separated from God.

Gen_17:7  And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

1Ti_2:5  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

A covenant was needed between God and mankind.

A Mediator was needed between God and mankind.

Why?

You don't need a covenant or a mediator if you are not trying to reconcile and establish something.

God wanted to establish the best kind of relationship He could with fallen mankind through His covenant until such a time the Mediator would come with a perfect covenant that would rejoin mankind with God permanently.

Though we sinned and we are guilty, God still wanted us to comprehend the depths of His love for us. He could forgive us. He would make the greatest sacrifice ever to pay that penalty for our transgressions, for our disobedience. God the Son would become one of us and die.  What more could ANYONE ask of Him?

Reconciled to God, fallen man is reconciled by the grace of God.

We can do NOTHING to deserve eternal life, nothing at all. We can only accept the grace of our God.

Please, Father, help us to accept the grace of God, please.