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5/17/14

FREE!... Sunday


Devotional for 5/18/14

Recently a local news station went to many different grocery stores for a whole week and randomly chose people and paid for their groceries.  The reactions ranged from skepticism and disbelief, to surprise and joy.  Some people reluctantly accepted, as if waiting for them to say they had to do something for it.  One person outright asked, "What's the catch?"  Many were happy and grateful.  Several cried out with joy and hugged the giver.  None of those featured declined the free gift.  How would you respond?

We have all received something like this -- a free gift with no catches.  The only choice we have in the matter is whether or not to decline that gift.  Surprisingly, many people pass on the undeserved present.  Some don't even realize what they have been given.  It is the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.  This life was given to us when we were dead.  What can a dead person do to get anything?  Nothing!  They are dead.  It is only out of the love God has for us that we are able to receive this free gift.  It is not given based on anything we do or how good we are.  We can't even reach out to grasp it -- we were dead in our sins!  The only choice we have in the matter is whether or not to reject it.  And what of those who don't even know about this free gift?  That is where we come in - we were created to do good works and to witness to the world that they too have this precious free gift. So what are we waiting for? Praise God!

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins...  But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved...  For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.  For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.  
        Ephesians 2:1, 4-5, 8-10 (NIV)
Ephesians 2:8-9 (57 kb)
written by Jan Andersen

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