Higher Obedience

“… for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood, to be received by faith.” Romans 3:23-25

I do get confused and unsure about what the Bible reports and teaches. Sometimes I’m just really at lost when it comes to thinking about the Gospel, not that I don’t know what the Gospel is, but rather how we can back it up since verses sometimes can seem to contradict one another and I wonder, “Man, how do we know what’s really true?”. I do have a little faith crisis here and there but it is at those times that straight forward verses such as Romans 3:23-25 hit me hard.

It’s easy for me to know and believe that I’m a sinner, that my redemption was bought by Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross and that is all a free gift from God. But the part that I keep forgetting is that it is “to be received by faith”. I got to remind myself of that every single day, otherwise I forget it and then get confused down the road. Yes God’s grace doesn’t make sense to me and it actually frustrates me at times, but I got to remember that it is by faith that God justifies me, through Jesus Christ and he does it freely. Faith’s got to be active and it’s tough to just believe, to just accept God’s grace in light of my sins and rebellion, but I got to repent and receive God’s grace by faith, daily.