While reading Romans 5 last week, I sketched the following picture:
That is me, standing in grace, receiving the love of the Holy Spirit that’s being poured out from a pitcher. Nice picture, right?
Jesus had other thoughts. When I showed him, he asked me to “look.” So I closed my eyes and pictured what I’d drawn. Then, in my mind, the door to the garage burst open and a flood of water came gushing through. It smashed through the dining room, swirled around my bedroom, pushed through the family room, kitchen, and all the bedrooms. It spiraled when it found something alive, like the kids and my chameleon. It was a tidal wave of love and grace, full of power and might!
So I sat there, having experienced such a rush, and glanced again at my little drawing. We aren’t standing in a puny bucket of grace, getting dripped on by God’s love through the Holy Spirit. He wants to completely deluge our hearts and minds with his love and grace! It’s powerful and complete!
I received that gift! I lived in it, felt it, and remembered it all week long. And so now, I share it with you. Maybe God wants to show you His love for you, too. I pray you take the time to “look.”
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:1-5
