When I go to Phoenix to see my family I generally drive my mom's 12 year old Ford Taurus. (It only has 60,000 miles on it.) The perk to driving this car is that it comes equipped with a handicapped parking sticker so I can get those prime spots right by the door of most establishments. However, sometimes I forget that I have that all access pass to premium parking and wind up parking pretty far away. That's not a big deal except when it is 115 degrees in the shade at the height of summer.
I thought about this while I was reading Romans 5 this week. And yes I do know how odd my brain is! That's a topic you will need to take up with Jesus. Anyway, Paul writes that through Jesus "we have gained access into this grace in which we now stand." How I praise God that the throne room is handicapped accessible! Indeed my sin, my stubbornness and brokenness were/are more than a handicap! They were totally debilitating and cut me off from God's amazing grace.!
The CROSS and my faith in the efficacy of its work gives me access to the riches of God's grace.The dictionary defines access as "The ability or right to approach, enter, exit, communicate with, or make use of." That's awesome! A whole lot better than premium parking; I stand before God soaked in grace!
Yet often I forget the access I have, the permission, ability and right won for me to approach and communicate with the God of the universe. I fail to take advantage of my all access pass and forget the grace in which it is my privilege to stand and the favor in which I walk.
JESUS PAID IT ALL! I don't want to forget that! I want to remember to say thank you and I want to take full advantage of the access He won for me! I want to be soaked in God's grace so that when I am squeezed that's what comes out! When I do that I'm not handicapped anymore! I am whole. That too is a gift of the cross.
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