NEVER LOOSING THE WONDER OF GOD’S GIFT
“Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord; Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.” Lamentations 3:39-41 NKJV
Romans 5:8 states, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Selah.
It is one thing to take the place of a good man; it is entirely another to take the place of an evil man when you yourself are perfect—and that is exactly what Jesus did for me, for you, and even for those who have yet to acknowledge Him.
Our theme scripture awakens us to this sobering truth: God owed us nothing, yet He gave us everything in the person of Christ. Lamentations calls us to honest examination and reminds us that life itself is mercy, and every breath we take is undeserved grace. When we truly grasp what our sin merited, we are stripped of entitlement and reoriented toward gratitude.
Child of God, the danger is not merely forgetting the gift, but losing the wonder of it. Familiarity with grace can quietly dull our awe. The cross becomes assumed, forgiveness expected, mercy treated as ordinary. Yet the gospel never becomes small, only our vision of it does. When we return to the reality of who we were apart from Christ, the wonder is restored. Gratitude rises naturally when entitlement dies.
To lift our hearts and hands to God is not an act of obligation, but of amazement. We turn back to the Lord not because we deserve His kindness, but because He has already lavished it upon us.
Grace, rightly understood, keeps us humble, tender, and eternally thankful.
Prayer: My Lord, thank you for the gift I could never earn and the mercy I did not deserve. Keep my heart awake to the wonder of your grace, that I would never grow casual with the cross. I lift my heart and my hands in gratitude for Jesus, your greatest gift. Amen.
CI.
RELATED RESOURCES
• Ephesians 2:4
• Titus 3:4
• Micah 6:8
