Held By Grace

August 6, 2023

Romans 9:1-5

There are people we want to “save.” We wish they would heed the Good News, the same old song we proclaim week after week. “If only we could convince them of the truth we cling to,” we think, “then they will be OK.”

But (and it is a big but so you know it does not lie), we remember that the story of blessing, redemption, and salvation is not ours to fulfill. God is at work. In Moses. In Christ. In Paul. In Israel. In you. In me.

We cannot save anyone any more than we can save ourselves.

The Good News is that we stand by grace and not by the superiority of anyone – Gentile or Jew, Black or White, Godly or Ungodly. We, along with everyone else, are not held by our merits or demerits; instead, we are held by God’s mercy, held by grace.