Good Morning!
Romans 4:3; “What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and
it was credited to him as righteousness.”
I read a story on the
internet yesterday (so we know it is true!) about a retired lady who had been
receiving her monthly retirement check.
She had worked for this company all of her life. She retired at the age of 62. She is now almost 90. She has been receiving these retirement
checks for almost 30 years each month depositing the money that she and the
company had paid in. The other day she
got a letter from the retirement fund management company. They had miscalculated her payments and had
been overpaying her the whole time. With
interest calculated in, they felt she owed them $620,000. They were waiting for her prompt payment.
The fund management
credited more money to her account than they should have. Now they expected it back. God credits to your account all that Jesus
did and counts it as your righteousness.
Just think if you place of employment or your retirement fund was to
deposit a large sum of money everyday something like $25 million every morning
at 6:00 am. Every day of the week, every
week of the year, every year of your life.
What would you do with this? You
would never owe anyone anything and you would run out of things to buy and
never have to pay it back.
This is how much God
credits to your account through the righteousness of Christ. It is a sum that you cannot exceed in one
day. Now some of you may think you
have. You may think that you have
exceeded your allotted amount, but you have not and cannot. The devil will try to tell you that your
“grace account” is overdrawn that you are in debt to a level that you can never
repay. Yet God continues to put into
this account every day, grace upon grace; to a level you cannot comprehend.
God does this out of love
for you. He does this so you can be his
redeemed child. There are so many ways
that God shows you, his love. He does
this with his creative act as he creates the world; he does it with his
redemptive act of his death; he does it with his re-creative act as he restores
us to his kingdom, and he does it with the regenerative act of his holy meal as
he nourishes us. This he does in order
to sustain us through the trials and struggles of this life. This he does so that we can live confident of
our future; confident in the hope that he gives to us. We are able to face the tasks of today and
the challenges of tomorrow because our account is full, never overdrawn. God, in his mercy, sustains us with his
righteousness that he wraps around us with his love. You can take that to the bank!!
Father in heaven, your
mercies are new to us each day. We give
you thanks for the grace that you pour out upon us. We know no other hope than you. Be with those who struggle and are in
fear. Be with those who see their
struggle as beyond their tolerance. Give
them your comfort and your hope. In
Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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