Good Morning All,
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 your place of employment or
your retirement fund was to deposit a large sum of money every day, 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 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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