Run Over by the Grace TrainSample

DAY 1: Grace Saves

Have you ever gotten fed up with yourself? You can’t keep your own promises, you do the very thing you don’t want to do, you stick your foot in your mouth, and so on and so on. It’s an unpopular opinion, but the truth is that you and I are the problem. Our diagnosis is that we have a disease, and we think that if we can just try harder or be better, then we can cure it. We fool ourselves into thinking we can self-help our way out of things when, in reality, we self-helped our way into things.

Our problem is much bigger than we think because the Bible tells us that we are not just bad people, but we are actually dead. What can a dead person do? That’s right, nothing. The only one who can do something about it is the one who beat death.

We downplay the severity of sin, but it is the very thing that has led us to our demise. Sin is a big deal because Jesus, God in the flesh, shed his own blood and sacrificed his own body to pay for it. The King of Kings had to endure the wrath of God so that you and I could be forgiven.

The good news is that Jesus IS life. He wants to resurrect you. This groundbreaking, hit-by-a-freight-train kind of love is offered by the grace of Jesus, and all you have to do is accept it. If you have never accepted this all-encompassing grace, the God of the Universe is inviting you to do it now. There is no magic prayer to recite but rather a transferring of faith from yourself to Him. Just tell Him you are a sinner, and you can’t fix your own heart problem alone. Tell Him you need Him, and you believe Jesus is the Son of God and Savior. If you have already placed your faith in Jesus before reading this, take this as your reminder of the miracle of your salvation and the grace He has hit you with.