Grace To a Sinner
One of my favorite songs of all time is Rich Mullins’, Awesome God. My favorite lyric of that song is this line: Judgment and wrath He poured out on the Sodom Mercy and grace He gave us at the cross I hope that you have not Too quickly forgotten that Our God is an awesome God Up to that point in the song Rich has been explaining why our God is awesome. From the moment of creation, to the time of the Fall, and to the cross, Rich shows us why our God is an awesome God. All summed up in this culminating statement, “Mercy and grace He gave us at the cross”. Many times when I hear this line, I have been brought to tears. I look to God’s holiness and see my sinfulness. I see His wrath on Sodom for their sin, then I see His mercy and grace at the Cross. That judgment and wrath that He poured out on Sodom... I deserved that. But He gave me grace. See this passage from 1 Corinthians: Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit th...