This Love Called Grace
Faith in itself, a gift;
But not the ultimate gift of grace;
God’s unearned gift of reconciliation.
Not a reward for acts accomplished in body or soul
But an act of perfect love, not earned.
God devised a way to pay that debut;
God became MAN
Just to die, bleed and suffer utter abasement;
The penalty He Himself imposed in the garden for our disobedience, desertion
And rejection.
It was God’s perfect love that reconciled not only man
But all of His creation to Himself,
By way of Christ’s Cross on which that perfect sacrifice died.
All of God’s creation includes those angels that fell from grace
When they as we chose to follow that other.
For they too were created;
But not encaged in this flesh
But having more knowledge they fell just as far
But not so far as to be missed by God’s grace.
Should we that were formed and proved shaped in iniquity,
Believe that we died therein on Christ’s wooden cross?
Then believe that it was God as His only begotten Son
That walking without but now within;
And did suffer that punishment that we all did begin.
By faith we have been recreated in
Him as a new creation;
Should we in that way
Choose to remain.
A Matter of Grace by Faith
By
Sammie L. Carter
Copyright 05 April 2011
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