A discussion with an average Christian today about what grace means will leave you startled as to how modern Christianity has misrepresented the grace of God.
Most people who profess religion believe God’s grace excludes them from the dos and don’ts of life. They take the grace of God as a license to continue a life of sin. On the contrary, God, whether in the Old Testament or in the New, has never given any exception to righteous living. The standard He expected of sons, He also expected of strangers.
Some self-styled believers live as if certain biblical principles and doctrines do not apply to them. There are others who think that if they do not believe in the existence of God, they may be exonerated from His judgements at the end life. Ignorance, whether deliberate or sincere, is never an excuse to break any law.
Bible truths are universal and apply to everyone, regardless of race, colour or creed. What commandments are good for sons were also good for strangers in Moses’s law. The same standard that is required of sons is likewise required of strangers. This is because there is only one heaven and one hell. One standard of holiness is required to enter into heaven, no matter the time and or dispensation we are in.
But who were the “strangers” the law was referring to? They are the Gentiles who would later become partakers of God’s grace in the new covenant. Oh the faithfulness and loving kindness of God!
Do you feel like a stranger to salvation and the grace of God? He has provided a conversion process through which strangers are made sons. This began at Calvary, when Jesus died. Be wise and take advantage of God’s provision, and accept His prescription in order to gain eternal life.
THOUGH FOR TODAY: God’s grace that begets salvation is available to all.
DAILY MANNA, THURSDAY JULY 6, 2017
FOR SONS AND STRANGERS
TEXT: NUMBERS 15:22-29
KEY VERSE: “ Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them” (Numbers 15:29).
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