My little addition to Our Daily Bread (12/2/11):
The LORD is righteous in all His ways
and gracious in all His acts.
(Psalm 145:17 HCSB)
I just can’t grasp this verse. I have a feeling I’m going to have to put it with the mystery of Jesus Christ can be fully man and fully God or how there can be but one God yet three persons. I know it’s true that God is righteous and just in all things, but “it’s a God thing” to be able to be gracious at the same time. In my customer service positions, extending grace usually means “bending the rules” rather than staying true to the “letter of the law.” Yet I know this is not the case with Him, because if God was ever going to “fudge a little” it would have been when the Son prayed repeatedly for another way other than His death and burial to save us (Matt 26:36-46). He is righteous and yet He made a way to meet the demands of righteousness to extend grace to pay my consequence at great expense. I still can’t really understand that kind of love, but to His praise and glory I will be giving Him my thanks for eternity.
- Andy Jentes
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