Author: Servant of the Lord

Romans 12:3

Humble Service in the Body of Christ

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

Romans 12:3 NIV

Walk The Walk… Not Only Talk The Talk

Surrender is normally seen as defeat… but for a Christian surrender of our lives to the Lord is victory.

Surrender is the price we pay to follow Jesus.

But salvation is a free gift right?

The grace of God is made freely available to us through Christ but it had a great price – the price of His life.

We freely receive the forgiveness of God when we receive His gift of salvation and turn in repentance from our life of sin. The proof of this is to desire to take hold of the life that he offers.

Now that’s where there is a price to pay for us… to walk the walk… not only talk the talk.

It’s not works at all. Surrender is the opposite of works. It requires deep faith and reliance on God’s grace and sets the foundation for actually living Christian life… living as compared to hearing and reading about it.

This is the place the Lord wants us to be. It’s the place where we will be confronted the most but a place where where we will learn to be most satisfied. It’s the place we really get to know the Lord.

It’s costs everything but we loose nothing of real value.

Matthew 13:46
who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Philippians 3:10
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

  • Mark Saunders

A Covenant Of Truth And Grace

There’s a point off the coast of South Africa where two oceans meet. The warm Indian Ocean and the cold Atlantic. One sea, two distinct oceans.

I’ve often thought that God’s grace is the point where two of his distinct attributes meet – His holiness and His love.

On one hand, the holiness of God exposes sin. The word of God is “sharp and piercing” and it discerns the thoughts and intents of our hearts. We can fool each other but we can’t fool God. The truth is revealed.

On the other hand, the love of God has given us Jesus – a high priest who sympathizes with our weakness and allows us to come boldly to the throne of grace for mercy and help in our time of need.

We put these two truths together and we have grace. They meet at the cross and become ours through faith.

Once we have come to faith we no longer need law. It can no longer help us.

We enter a new covenant. A covenant of truth and grace.

Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Hebrews 4:15-16
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

  • Mark Saunders