The providence of God!

One of the things that so captures my heart these days is the fact that God is neither distant or indifferent to His creation especially man who was created in His image. It is a source of great joy to know that God is always at work and deeply involved in the affairs of men especially the saints. It is therefore an affront to God to claim that He is not interested in the details of our lives. In fact, every small or big thing in our lives is either ordained by Him or it goes through His watchful gaze, so that He can turn all things together for good to those who are called. The love of God obliges Him to faithfully care for us regardless of how faithful or faithless we are. The truth of the matter, however remains that God longs for us to open up our lives before Him so that He can counsel us and guide us in a manner that can bring glory to Him. His interference in our lives in always for good, and therefore it is so much more better if we gladly welcome His activity into our lives. 

A free gift, by all means!

Romans 6:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. It is interesting that Paul talks about the wages of sin, meaning that death is the due penalty for the horror of sin. Death is the apt reply to sin and the one who sins deserves  to die. However eternal life is an altogether different matter. No one can ever deserve eternal life and no matter how hard you work for it, it is still a free gift because it is far too big for it to be anything other than a gift.  Please note that we are not called to see eternal life as just a free handout to the casual passer by. There is an yielding to God and a presenting ourselves to Him as a total act of sacrifice. However, no matter whatever we do from our side, eternal life is still a free gift since our puny efforts are nothing when compared to the glory of this very life of God. All that we do is just make an undeserving move and what we get is the incomparable riches of eternal life.