Day 73

Deuteronomy 6-9.  “Living by God’s Grace”

God’s grace is a wonderful and beautiful gift.  Deuteronomy 9:4-6 is a picture for us of God’s gracious gift.  The Promised Land for Israel was God’s blessed gift to His chosen people.  And it is for us a foreshadowing of our future in Heaven.  Israel in the Promised Land was God’s chosen people living in a ‘perfect’ land, with God Himself dwelling among them in the tabernacle.
What we notice in Deuteronomy 9:4-6 is that God didn’t place Israel in this land because they earned it, but rather God was carrying out His promise to His chosen people.  
God’s grace works in the same way for us.  We have not earned the right to receive God’s grace.  It is God’s choice to extend grace to those who come to Him in faith.
We experience a new beginning when we come to faith in Jesus Christ.  It is a life that is begun through God’s grace, it is lived in God’s grace and it is culminated by God’s grace.  You may acknowledge that you received new life through God’s grace, but are you living by God’s grace, or are you now trying to earn His grace through works and following manmade rules?

General Questions for each day:
Summarize the day’s Bible passage in your own words.
What thoughts, actions, attitudes or beliefs are addressed in the passage?
How is the Holy Spirit leading you to apply this passage to your life today?