God’s Grace in a Savior

“May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.”  Psalm 19:14

We can actually come into the presence of the God of the universe and be pleasing to Him, and accepted by Him, because of our Rock and our Redeemer. Do you know who the psalmist was talking about in Psalm 19:14? Jesus. Jesus is the Rock of Ages. Jesus, by dying on the cross, became the Redeemer of the human race. God has spoken in many ways. He has spoken in the skies. He has spoken in the scriptures. He has spoken in the soul, but He saved His best word for last when he spoke through Jesus.

In Jesus, we discover all of God we can know and in Jesus, we have all of God we need.  We see the glory of God in the skies, the guidance of God in the Scriptures, and the goodness of God in the soul, but we see the grace of God in the Savior.

Jim Irwin was one of the astronauts who went to the moon. After he got back he said this: “When I looked out and saw the earth, about as big as a little marble, I thought, ‘How big am I?  I am just a speck of dust – if that big – compared to the universe.’ Yet, this little speck has the capacity to know God! To know the One who holds the universe, to know His love, and have His direction.  For the first time, I saw – felt God’s love for the earth… I realized then that God loved that little blue marble, that little blue planet. He loved all the billions of people on it, and He loved me! I realized at that moment that my relationship with Jesus Christ was the most precious thing I had."

Irwin was right. Whether you are on earth looking up at the moon or on the moon looking back on earth, God is here, there, and everywhere and you can find Him at a cross and an empty tomb where He is ready to meet you anytime.

God, thank You for sending Your Son, Jesus, to die on a cross for me, and to be raised from the dead so I can have eternal life. The Psalms talk about how You reveal Yourself to us in many ways—in creation, in Scripture, and also in the Person of Jesus. As you reveal Yourself to me, help me to know You more closely and obey You more fully. In Jesus’ name, amen.