Our obedience to God should flow from our gratitude for salvation. Obedience itself cannot save us, because we are all prone to sin. The law (Gods commands) reveals His perfect standard and our inability to reach it; grace reveals His kindness in providing what we could never earn.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come! We sing this carol with ease, but do we ever pause to reflect on the incredible joy it proclaims, the joy of our Lord coming to save us from sin and from eternal separation from God?