Treasured Vignettes
“If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law, according to the Scripture, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,’ you are doing well.” James 2:8
God’s value system is such a comfort to the repentant sinner. Whether rich or poor, renowned or obscure, young or old, we all have sinned and gone our own way. Without partiality, God loves sinners, all of them! He favored all mankind with a Savior and, with Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, accepted atonement for all our sins. Through Jesus Christ, God’s mercy is extended to all. But, let us not forget, God’s judgment is also extended to all. He has set us free from the penalty of sin and death, establishing the “law of liberty,” which, the Lord simply states as, “Go and sin no more;” and, reinforced by other Scriptural statements as, “forgive as you have been forgiven,” “do not use your freedom as an occasion to sin,” and “love your neighbor as yourself.” Consider this, “. . . one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man (and, by inference, woman) shall be blessed in what he does.” Selah.
© Sherron M. Hudson, Hidden Treasure Ministries, December 2003. All rights reserved.
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