The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Romans 5:1-2, “Therefore having been justified by faith,

we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction

by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult

in hope of the glory of God.”

We’ve all heard people who could talk for hours and say

nothing! Paul is one who says enormous truths in only a

few verses. Since the sin of Adam in the Garden of Eden,

all mankind, men and women, have the DNA of sin within

them. Going anywhere of prominence, we certainly want

to be clean. How then can we stand cleanly before God

with sin in our lives? He cleanses us when we believe in

Him. That’s what “justified by faith” means. And when

we are clean, we are at peace standing before God.

Yet, Paul says we have just “obtained our introduction”

into the grace of God. There’s much more to learn. We

now possess an attitude of confidence in God. We rejoice

and glory in Him, looking forward with future certainty

toward His appearance at His Coming for us! WOW!

There’s more, so much more, than that first sweet day;

More, so much more, every passing day;

And the life I now live, Christ is living in me,

In each word, in each deed, in each day.

*Bob Oldenburg

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”