Where sin abounds...

How sinful is the world? Calculate all of the sin in of all of the world. Start with your self. Add up each sin you have ever committed and add to it those you have yet to commit. Now think of every person living, from the most innocent to the most vile and what is their sum, past and future. Now add to that every person that has ever lived and all of their sinfulness. How sinful is the world? Staggering!

Where sin abounds, grace abounds even more.Read it again.Read it again. Out loud. Seriously.

Paul's words to us in Romans 5:20 remind us of this great truth.Don’t ever think that the life is more evil than good. God’s goodness, His grace and His mercy far exceed and out weigh all that is wrong in the world. His grace is our salvation; literally. It doesn't just tip the scales, it breaks the scales, the chains and the tables. And as if that weren't enough add to that John 1:16.

14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’” 16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. 17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

Not just abounding grace, but abounding grace upon abounding grace. The God of the double portion. His grace is sufficient not just for my sin, but for all of mankind throughout all of history and the future. None of us deserve is, nor can we earn it, but then again, that is what makes it grace. We can receive it, though, and watch it's transformational power change us into people of grace so that we can be the abounding grace this world so desperately needs.