A Gap That Grace Fills

God is infinitely awesome and glorious. Beautiful beyond any description. Words cannot encapsulate His greatness or His goodness towards us. This kind of perfection and mercy deserves a infinite and perfect response. It deserves a response that always and perfectly acknowledges God's glory and infinite value every moment and lives accordingly. Sadly, our response to God is finite and falls pathetically short of what He truly deserves. This gap between how we ought to respond to God and how we do respond to Him seems insurmountable. How can we cross this gap?

Only the grace of God in Christ Jesus makes this gap crossable. Romans tells us that because of our sin we have all fallen short of God's glory. Not that we could ever attain to God's glory, but that we fail to recognize it, appreciate it, and live in correct response to it as we ought. God grace accepts us and our feeble response to His Son by faith as adequate. Our faith in Christ and His sacrifice is counted as righteousness, or, living rightly and justly according to the glory and holiness of God. This grace is truly a marvel for it has, through Christ, filled an otherwise infinite and impossible gap.

We still struggle as Christians with living out our faith, giving God what He truly deserves, worshiping Him as He ought to be worshiped, and loving Him in a way worthy of the love that He first showed us. It is clear that these feeble offerings could never earn us a position of "righteous" before God in an of themselves. Yet our humble service and worship to our Master is accepted as a pleasing aroma, even though it is far less than what He deserves. As united to Christ by faith, God accepts what we give Him out of a pure heart, for His Son's righteousness covers us. Praise God! For this we must fervently praise God and marvel at His grace in Jesus Christ, a grace that fills the gap. And one day, in heaven, we will be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. One day, in complete absence of all sin in heaven, and in our new and glorious bodies, we will be perfected and will give Him pure worship and praise as He deserves.