Grace Wins

Where Sin Abounded, Grace Abounded Much More

Romans 5:20

God’s work in our lives is truly transformational. He makes fundamental changes in us, radically and permanently shaping us from the inside out. God never demands conduct that He does not first empower us to achieve. His grace transforms us to live on a higher level than we ever could on our own.

Sin entered the human experience through Adam when he broke God’s command. From that moment, death reigned as a temporary monarch, exercising dominion over all humanity. The actions of Adam and Christ affect the entire world. Each is a head of a race of people. Death passes to all who are in Adam, but life passes to all who are in Christ. God sees every person as either in Adam or in Christ.

Adam’s disobedience opened the door for all humanity to become sinners. Christ’s obedience opened the door for many to be made perfectly right with God and fully acceptable to Him. No one is exempt from sin or death. Sin distorts and disturbs our relationship with God in every way, and death is a vast abyss that separates us from Him, a complete termination of life as we know it. Sin is a deep discrepancy between who we are and who we were created to be

But here is the good news: Adam got us into this trouble, but Christ gets us out. We confirm our solidarity with Adam by our own sins each day. We are made of the same fallen substance and naturally prone to rebellion. Because we are sinners, we desperately need grace. If we do nothing, we inherit death through Adam. But if we come to God by faith, we receive life in Christ.

In the end, sin may abound – but God’s grace abounds all the more. Grace is greater than all our sin.

Thoughtful Reflection

Where sin abounds, grace abounds much more. Sin doesn’t stand a chance in competition with grace – grace wins every time.