Meditation on Sin and Grace

Cheap Grace

Grace alone which God supplies,

Strength unknown He will provide,

Christ in us our corner-stone,

We will go forth in grace alone.

The verses above are taken from a song written by Scott Wesley Brown, Grace Alone. A word in this song which burns my heart is the word “Grace”. As we recite the song we encounter a verse that said God will supply grace to us. However what kind of grace it will be? It is not a cheap kind of grace but a grace that handsomely paid by God.

No body will understand grace without, at first; understand the weight of sin that resides in one life. People who are without a remorse feeling over their sin will never be willingly admit grace into their life.

We all have crossed over God’s moral law and sinned against Him. Fourteenth question of the Westminster Shorter catechism has cited: What is sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God. Sin describes here as both passive (sin of commission) and active (sins of omission). We sin when we fail to conform to God’s will. For examples: when we have a duty to prune the garden and we are not performing that duty. From the example, we can see that we sin because we have not done what God requires us to do.

On the other hand, we also actively do what He prohibits. This means we sin because we do the thing that God does not want us to do, transgression unto God’s moral Law. If we transgressed a law written by a state or country, we can expect a punishment. However to transgress the Law of God (sin) is a “cosmic treason”, as rightly pointed by R. C. Sproul. In His book, The Truth of The Cross, he expounds that: “the slightest sin that a creature commits against his Creator does violence to the Creator’s holiness, His Glory, and His righteousness. Every sin, no matter how insignificant, is an act of rebellion against the sovereign God who reigns and rules over us and as such is an act of treason against the cosmic King.” Never overlook sin that you done because it is a serious matter, it is an act of treason against the cosmic king and it required a severe punishment.