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E V E R Y D A Y L I G H T
Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
Grace - Greater Than All Our Sin!
"... where sin abounded, grace did much more abound ..." (v. 20,
KJV)
-- For reading & meditation: Romans 5:12-21
We are meditating on how to recover from the brokenness caused by the
memory of some deeply grievous sin. By that we mean a sin which God
has forgiven but which, for some reason, still burns in our memories.
The first principle is this: realize that God can do more with sin
than just forgive it. I heard an elderly minister make that statement
many years ago, when I was a young Christian, and at first I resisted
it. I said to myself: "How can God use sin? Surely it is His one
intolerance?" Then, after pondering for a while, I saw what he meant.
God uses our sin to motivate our will toward greater spiritual
achievement, to quicken our compassion toward sinners and to show
God's tender heart for the fallen. We must be careful, of course,
that we do not fall into the error which Paul refers to in Romans
6:1-2: "Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid"
(KJV). If we sin in order that God may use it, then our motives are
all wrong and we fall foul of the eternal purposes. If, however, we
commit sin, but then take it to God in confession - really take it to
Him - then He will not only forgive it, but make something of it. Is
this too difficult for you to conceive? Then I point you to the
cross. The cross was the foulest deed mankind ever committed, yet God
used it to become the fulcrum of His redemption. It was our lowest
point - but it was God's zenith. Hallelujah.
PRAYER:
O Father, I am so relieved to know that You take even my sins and
make them contribute to Your purposes. Grace turns all my bad into
good, all my good into better and all my better into the best.
Hallelujah!
FURTHER STUDY:
Heb. 10:1-22; Isa. 43:25; 44:22; 55:7
1. What will God not remember any more?
2. What is the "full assurance" we can have?
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