Romans 4:13-16
English Standard Version (ESV)
Maps are funny things. If you've got to drive across the country, you absolutely need one. Without a map pointing the way and choosing a road based on what felt right, it's highly unlikely you'd arrive at your destination. And yet, if you spend all your time on the road staring at the map and never look at the road ahead, you'll probably veer off the road and hit a tree.
As Christians, without the grace of Christ we are strangers in a foreign land, and the map of the law cannot lead us where we need to go. We are lost, without hope of finding our way home.
The beauty of grace is that Christ doesn't simply give us a new map. He comes and picks us up and carries us home, offering us freedom from trying to figure it out on our own. It doesn't depend on us -- Christ has paid the ultimate price so that we might be free.
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