all of grace

Genesis 2:7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

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Without having anything to do with the fact of our lives on earth, we seem to take those lives for granted.  In fact, we hold our lives in the highest value (and that is a good thing).  But it occurred to me that, apart from the grace of God, there would be no lives.  From the verse above we know that the very first person, Adam, was directly formed by God, out of the soil.  And, later, God fashioned Eve from one of Adam's ribs.  The very name, Eve, speaks to God's grace in all of the generations to follow.  Consider this verse:

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Genesis 3:20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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I suppose this is why many want to replace the wonder of grace with the conundrum of evolution...because it distracts from the reality that all of life is from grace...the grace of God's hand.  Every human life bears the imprint of Creation.

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If we grasp that all of life is all by grace we return to the One who gave us life and seek His solution to the barriers that have blocked our close relationship with Him since the Garden of Eden.

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For, the grace that lies behind every human life beckons to an eternal dimension of living as well.

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Here is a great promise about eternal life:

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John 6:40 "For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

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Life is all of grace, but eternal life calls for a response to grace!  Have you responded?  Consider the proper response.

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blessings,

Rob Smith

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"Death is inevitable.  Life is a choice!"

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."