Life without End

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Romans 5:20-21  The Message

^20-21 All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.

For Reflection 

I believe that without law we could not survive.  But is civil law really the deterrent that we expect it to be?  Have our laws ended drug abuse?  Have they put a stop to injustice?  Has zero tolerance done anything but create additional unintended problems?

To what extent does civil law inhibit grace?  Is there another path that would minimize a law for every manifestation and complication of sin?

Pray

for wisdom in designing systems of retributive justice.  Pray for the equal use of Grace as a a healing salve on the wounds which arise from our human condition.