Romans Chapter 5 cont'd
And so, not only do we have joy because of our glorious future and because our present sufferings have meaning, but we also simply enjoy God. Our Lord Jesus Christ has made this personal fellowship with God possible through his sacrificial death for the forgiveness of our sins.
Comments:
Paul concludes this first section of Romans 5 about the sources of joy for living in this age by coming to the bottom line of joy. Our greatest blessing is having a "real-time" interactive friendship with the most amazing Being in the universe...the Maker of Heaven and Earth. We celebrate our absolute pardon for all our failures and sins and the free gift of righteousness that is also ours because of Jesus. We marvel at the expectation of a future that is beyond our wildest imaginations in terms of it's beauty and satisfaction. But...beyond these joys...here and now, the Holy Spirit has equipped us with the capacities of both soul and body (software and hardware!) to walk with God as His friends and to experience the transcendent and undergirding joy of knowing His genuine companionship...even though our feet still get dirty while treading this fallen world.
May we draw near to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit by faith today and open the windows of our beings to God-joy.
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