Today’s Devotional: “God’s Medium for Grace and Mercy”

“Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” (Romans 5:20)

• Even though we, in our sin, sought to dethrone the Lord God of creation from our hearts and to walk according to the dictates and course of this world.
• Even though we chose to walk according to the lusts of the flesh, we were, as such, children of wrath.
• Even though we were God’s enemies and alienated from Him because of our ever-increasing sin nature, God’s grace and mercy have abounded through Jesus Christ and the sacrifice He made for our sins, so we shall one day see God face to face and enjoy communion with Him forever in heaven.

“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:13)

Because of the enormity of our sin, God makes all grace and mercy abound toward us through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the medium through which His grace and mercy are extended toward us.

“Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” (Ephesians 1:5-7)

The curse of the law has been removed through Jesus’s sacrifice, as He became that curse for us on the cross (Galatians 3:13).

And so, what the law couldn’t accomplish has been secured through Jesus Christ. What the law couldn’t accomplish through the blood of bulls and goats, Jesus’s blood secures, making perfect forever, those who come to believe in Him (Hebrews 10).

“For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17)

Jesus Christ, therefore, is the medium through which God pours out His exceeding grace and mercy.