Delight in Grace

This world is passing and we are free to live for the greater reality that full righteousness and satisfaction are coming when we are eternally with Christ. There is only one before whom we will stand in the end.

Edwin Clowney wrote, "It is the privilege of those who are sons and daughters of the most high, to imitate the magnificence of their Father's mercy. They rise above simple justice to reflect God's goodness and love. We are called to overcome evil with good. As people who are free, it is our privilege to champion what is true, right and good.

1 Peter 2:16 teaches us to be free though surrender to God.

Is freedom the complete absence of boundaries? 1 Peter 2:16 challenges this notion by asserting that people without boundaries are not free, in reality they are slaves to their own short-sighted view of what is good. Freedom doesn't mean we have no boundaries. We are free within God's loving boundaries. They are for our good, because God is good. The Christian's element is in Christ, it is there that we thrive and find our greatest freedom.

Freedom doesn't mean we have no boundaries. We are free within God's loving boundaries. They are for our good, because God is good.

Is freedom the complete absence of boundaries? 1 Peter 2:16 challenges this notion by asserting that people without boundaries are not free, in reality they are slaves to their own short-sighted view of what is good.

When we abide in Christ and let His word inform and transform our desires and affections, the fruit in our lives will be a product of our genuine satisfaction in Christ.

We know that the Christian life calls us to live differently than we lived before coming to Christ. But we're not called to keep up appearances or simply manage our sin. That would be like tying apples on a hemlock tree and calling it an apple tree. Instead, we have a radical call to abide in Christ., to let his word inform and transform our desires and affections. The fruit in our lives will be a product of our genuine satisfaction and confidence in Christ.

We know that the Christian life calls us to live differently than we lived before coming to Christ. But we're not called to keep up appearances or simply manage our sin. That would be like tying apples on a hemlock tree and calling it an apple tree. Instead, we have a radical call to abide in Christ., to let his word inform and transform our desires and affections. The fruit in our lives will be a product of our genuine satisfaction and confidence in Christ.

Have you tasted that "the Lord is good"? He knows me absolutely, totally, intimately yet He still loves me.