November 12, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Wednesday, November 12.
I love a good “word picture.” A phrase, carefully crafted, that when you read it, causes you to think about something in a brand-new way. The Apostle Paul paints many of these word pictures for us. In Hebrews 12 - “We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses”. In I Corinthians 12 - “What if the ear says, I am not an eye, so I am not a part of the body.” In I Corinthians 13 - “Now we see through a glass darkly”. And he does it again in the first words of the 5th chapter of Romans.
“Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into the grace in which we now stand.”
Have you ever thought of grace as something you can “stand” in? What a remarkable word picture that is. And what a firm foundation. A place where we belong, not because of anything that we have done, but by faith in His righteousness alone. Romans 5:1-2 is one of the greatest passages in the Bible, and inspired one of my favorite contemporary worship songs.
I’ll stand with arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all
I’ll stand, my soul, Lord, to You surrendered
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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