Immovable Love and Grace

It never fails to amaze me that when we look at scripture simply and logically, how profound truths of the Kingdom come forth.  I heard a preacher say that God, who is love, sent Jesus who is grace.  My mind kind of went off of that idea and I saw a truth that solidifies my deep security in the Grace of God even more.

Scripture is very clear that Jesus is the embodiment of the Grace of God.  John says that "grace and truth came through Jesus Christ"(Jn1:17).  Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians, Ephesians, and Colossians that in Christ are the promises of God, our inheritance as saints, and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Christ is also for us righteousness, sanctification, and redemption(1 Cor 1:30).  Jesus is everything we have and everything we need because through him we have peace with God(Rom 5:1), who "has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness through the true knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellence"(2Pet 1:3).

Scripture is also clear that Christ and the inheritance that he brings to all who put their faith in him is the expression of God"s love.  "For God so loved the World that he sent his one and only son"(Jn 3:16).  Paul told the Romans "But God demonstrates his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."  Also, 1 John reads in chapter four that "By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through him.  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins."   The Gospel is God"s way of expressing his love and it is manifested in our transformed lives living in his peace and blessing of the New Covenant.

If we link these two truths with Romans 8:35-39 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  Just as it is written,""For thy sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered a sheep to be slaughtered."" But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neitherdeath, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" we have a promise to stand on. That Jesus and the grace established in the New Covenant, the very expression of God's love, will never be taken from us and nothing can separate us from it.  Therefore, we are free to live, rest, and worship in an unconditional love and grace that will never end or be removed.