Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the grace and mercy of Christ. The more I ponder it and meditate on it the more I realize just how infinite his mercy toward me is and how undeserving of it I am.
Every passing moment more mercy is shown to me and to all of us as believers. Every second that I am alive is more mercy being shown to me by Christ. I am deserving of death and yet I live. Christ was deserving of not just life, but all glory, laud and honour and yet he died for me in the greatest act of his mercy on the cross.
This has got me thinking about how then we should live. So often we live thinking that we are making great sacrifices in everything we do. An example that my dad used in one of his sermons was about church. We think that we are making a sacrifice for Christ because we get up early to go to church instead of sleeping in or going shopping or whatever. Surely this is not the case. Christ sacrificed himself for us. We go to church and live lives pleasing him to show our loyalty to him and our gratitude for his great sacrifice.
After thinking through all of this my sin seems so much greater. How could I go around constantly sinning after the awesome mercy that Christ has shown me and still is giving me? I should be living a life that completely obeys and honours Christ and yet I still sin…
I hope that all of you will think about this as much as I have. I stand in awe and amazement at the mercy of Christ.
