Grace Toward Sin.

Romans 6:1-2
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

I read these first two verses of the sixth chapter of Romans a couple times to let the strength of the message sink into my mind. When Paul says, "Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase..." it strikes me as a remarkable statement. I immediately thought of God's grace being comparable to something you blow up or stretch. We've all blown up balloons to our fullest capability. Think about blowing it up infinitely. That's the equivalent of God's grace over our sin; it surrounds the uncomfortable bubble that sin causes us to live with. The more we sin, the greater God's grace is to cover our sin because of faith in Jesus' victory on the cross.

Day in and day out we sin. The good news is that no one can ever sin so much that God's grace isn't big enough to surround their bubble, so to speak. The more we sin, the greater his forgiveness and grace appears to be. Should we collect sins as if they're gold? "By no means!" We shouldn't do this because God's grace goes beyond eliminating sin. I'll talk more about this in the days to come.

What do you think? Is it strange that God's grace doesn't have limits? Or do we just take it for granted?