TODAY'S TURNING POINT WITH DR. DAVID JEREMIAH
Captured by Grace: Transforming Grace
April 8, 2017
The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.”
John 1:43
John 1:43
Commodities like lumber, cotton, sugar, coffee, and wheat are traded in markets based on contracts. A contract for x-amount of a commodity can be purchased today, which gives the buyer the right to purchase that commodity at a certain (lower) price in the future. A futures contract is a bet on the future, not on the present. If the commodity fails to meet the expected price, the contract expires worthless.
Recommended Reading: Romans 8:29
What if Jesus called us to Himself today based on how He hoped we would turn out in the future? What if we failed to meet His expectations and He rescinded His offer of salvation? That is not how God’s grace works. When Jesus called His first disciples in Galilee—Andrew, Peter, Philip, Nathanael, James, John—He called them just as they were, not as He hoped they would become. There is a future expectation, of course. God’s purpose is that, by grace, all His children will be conformed to the image of Christ. But we were called yesterday and are loved today just as we are.
God calls us in spite of our not being like Christ. He transforms us the same way He saves us: by grace alone.
The sinner, apart from grace, is unable to be willing and unwilling to be able.
W. E. Best
W. E. Best
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