Last week we talked about how God's grace opens our blinded eyes to the light of the reality of who He is. The problem with that is that once we realize who He is (and consequently who we are) we also then realize that we are hopelessly far from Him, mired in our own sin. 

We have a better chance to control a sunset than to find a way to make things right on our own.

It is there though, at the foot of the cross that the grace of Christ's sacrifice becomes real to us and His justifying grace makes us right again.