Good Morning to All,
Romans 5:2; “Through him we have
also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice
in hope of the glory of God.”
One
of my past times is to watch movies. I
like most kinds but I really enjoy comedies, westerns, pirate movies, movies
about knights, action movies and space movies.
If you can combine two or three of these, I really like them. One of my favorites is a movie called “Monty
Python and the Search for the Holy Grail”.
It is a very absurd comedy that makes fun of the knights of the
Roundtable who are searching for the Holy Grail. It spoofs the entire genre of knight movies. One part that always made me chuckle was when
the knights come to a bridge that they need to cross and a troll stops them and
demands that they answer three questions or they can’t pass. The scene ends with the troll being asked to
clarify a question, he can’t, so the troupe passes on by.
There is always a scene in movies like this
where in order to have access to a bridge or a room our hero needs to know the
access code. It might be a test of
courage or bravery. It might take skill
and cunning. It might take possessing a
key or some other device but there is usually a major part of the movie that
turns on having a way to access an important place. Without this access our hero will fail and
either the pretty girl will die or the kingdom will fail; one of those dramatic
events will occur. So having access is
crucial.
Our faith life is just like that. Sin caused us to have an “access denied” sign
flash in front of us. We could no longer
have access to God because we lacked the access code or the key for
entrance. We were no longer perfect, we
were sinful being whose sin had cause us to lose the key to God. We lost it to the point that we could never
get access again.
So God showed his grace to us by having
Jesus pay the price for our sin. By
doing so and by giving us the desire (faith) to trust that promise we now have
access to God’s grace. It is here that
we rejoice in hope (certainty) of the glory of God. God sent Jesus to give you back the access
that our sinned took away. God did this
out of love for you. God continues to do
this for us every minute of every day.
So now we have total access to God. We can come to him at any time and in any
state of trouble or fear. We can come in
any time of joy or celebration. God
invites us to use this free access at all times. God invites us to use prayer to access
him. He invites us to worship him to
hear his Words of forgiveness and acceptance.
God has given you access; use it continually.
Father
of all mercy, through your grace we are given access to your love
continually. Give us the wisdom to use
this gift often. Give us the strength to
trust in your free access to guide us through life’s struggles. Be with those who seem to have lost their
access to you. Give them the faith to
again access you and your grace. All this
we ask in Jesus’ precious name, amen
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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