Reading: Romans 3:27-31
Reflective Thoughts
Treasure the immeasurable
Do you remember the last dramatic story someone told about how they came to faith in Christ? Perhaps you listened in awe that God brought them through all of that and made them who they are today. You may also have compared your salvation experience to theirs and found it coming up somewhat short. You have no close calls or stories of rescue from the brink of disaster. Your Christian walk, you think, is just mediocre, perhaps even boring. Consider that in those moments you have lost focus of the immeasurable gift in the hands of your soul.
Paul tells the Romans in these verses that salvation is a gift, given through faith-it doesn’t matter what you have or have not done. God is not just the God of the blatant sinner. He is not just the God of the “good” person. He is not just the God of the “undesirable people” nor the “beautiful people.” God is the God of all who believe in Christ and what He did.
The person rescued from the brink of disaster to salvation is a witness to Christ’s unspeakable gift. But the person rescued from a “good life” that could never be good enough is equally a witness to Christ’s unspeakable gift.