RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN.

July 26

2 Corinthians 6:1  

We then, as workers together with him, beseech 

you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 

By the “grace of God” in this passage, we are to understand the everlasting gospel; which is a glorious proclamation of favour manifested to the vile and unworthy.

It proclaims that God has come down unto us in the person of Christ;

that He has accepted the labours, sufferings, and death of Jesus, as the ground of our deliverance from death, and as our title to eternal life;

and He now sends His ambassadors to assure us that He is our Friend;

that He will not impute our trespasses unto us;

that He views us in Jesus as a NEW CREATION, all former things are passed away and forgotten!

And He will make all who receive His word, and believe in His Son, the righteousness of God in Him.

Let us not then receive this glorious message in vain;

we do so if we indulge the thought that God is angry with us;

if we have doubt our acceptance of God in Christ;

if we fear that He will be wroth with us.

He informs us that His grace, to encourage us to believe, to quicken us in His ways, to embolden us at His throne, to produce love to His name, and to furnish us with an answer to all objections.

Oh, what amazing words of grace

Are in the gospel found!

Suited to every sinners case,

Who knows the joyful sound.

May I this glorious grace receive

And to my Saviour‘s glory live.

James Smith