Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
People thought the apostle Paul was unbalanced mentally in his unmeasured devotion to Christ. The story of the Savior’s love at His cross motivated him, pushed him forward relentlessly, so that he found it impossible to go on living for self. It made him a “new creation” (2 Cor.
In other words, let the grace work, let it have its way! Stop resisting it.
(1) It’s not cold “doctrine” for the theologians to wrangle over; it’s day-by-day practical living as the liberating ministry of what grace does.
(2) Our believing is the door that “provides access by faith into this grace in which we stand” (
(3) “The gift by the grace ... abounded to [the] many” (Gk), that is, everybody (vs. 15). Someone wisely said that “in the matchless gift of His Son God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who choose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live, and grow up to the stature of men and woman in Christ Jesus.” Is it such “hard work” to be saved as we have thought? “Breathe ... !” (Well, yes, the “choosing”—that’s the so-called hard work, isn’t it? Shame on us for twisting the message and even imagining that that’s “hard”!)
(4) Walk outdoors and fill your lungs with fresh air; then ask if you could breathe any more if you were the only person on earth. An infinite heavenly Father has created the whole world just for you.
(5) Then look at all those we-thought-were-wicked-people also filling their lungs with that same atmosphere of grace; who knows who of them will respond at last as “Elijah” gets busy “turn[ing] hearts.”
(6) That grace “abounds” more than all the pits of sin we’ve managed ourselves to fall into (vss. 20, 21; cf. Prov.
(7) It makes it impossible for the one who believes to continue in sin! Captivity to evil habits, drugs, alcohol, pornography, the apparently endless alienations from love—are vanquished. Grace imposes a new captivity, this time to the love of Christ. You’ll never be your own again. You’ve already received the grace; “let it not be in vain.”
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