Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
When we have done or said something bad, the Father doesn't stop us in public and berate us, or physically punish us! Because of what Jesus Christ accomplished for the world (not just offered us! but gave us!), the Father is free to treat "every man" as though he has not sinned! What a blessing!
Why is that?
In order to keep the universe free and balanced, every sin must be compensated for by punishment. "The wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23). But the Son of God chose to become one of us, to take upon Himself our fallen sinful nature, and to accept Himself the full punishment for every one of our sins.
The first Adam sinned in Eden and then passed on to all of us a sinful nature with a judicial sentence of punishment. But note, that is only a "judicial sentence of condemnation"; if the actual condemnation itself were passed on to us, none of us could live even a day.
What the Lord Jesus has given the world is another probation, another opportunity to listen and to repent. If the Holy Spirit reminds you that your time of probation may be nearing its end, be thankful and listen.
We hear often how sudden death has struck this one or that one. King Ahab is an example of what we can do. The record says of his end: "The word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? …'" The wicked king received mercy from the Lord's abundant supply of grace (read 1 Kings 21:28, 29).
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: August 23, 2008.
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