Day 1 - Week 6 - Second Stop on the Romans Road!

Here we are again - another Tuesday evening and another new verse!  This is the 2nd in the group of five verses that comprise the Romans Road.  As a matter of review, let's just do something real quickly!

Our Four Corners of God's Word were.....?

Genesis 1:1 - "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
John 1:1 - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
John 1:14 - "The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.  We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."
John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

And the first stop on our Romans Road was....?

Romans 3:23 - "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

Second stop?  Romans 6:23 (that's a help- we go from 3:23 to 6:23) - "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." 
Our first stop convicted us as sinners---something we have to recognize before we can travel on down the road.  Second stop tells us the cost of our sin.  Death.  But there is a gift that can replace what we have earned through our sinfulness...God's gift of eternal life, the gift that comes beautifully wrapped in the person of Jesus Christ.  I love the picture that I picked to accompany this week's verse...the road is dark and forboding, but there is such a glorious light in the future.  We're on this dark road of sin that leads to death, but we dont have to stay there...we can accept God's light, His gift of life through Jesus.

Robert P. Morgan says, "Wages is a word we see in our newspaper every day.  It's what we get for what we do.  The Bible says that we're all employed by sin, and the result or payback is physical, spiritual, and eternal death."  I had never thought of being employed by sin...but that's what we are.  Sin uses us, and uses us up, until everything in us has died, and then we leave this life to a destiny of eternal death. WHAT can be worth that price?  As appealing as Satan can make sin appear, be put on notice right now of the high price you will pay.  As Mark 8:36 asks, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

In opposition, God is ready to gift us with eternal life.  Seems like a fairly easy choice, doesn't it?  It reminds us of the words of Moses implorng the Israelites in Deuteronomy 30:19, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."

Choose the gift of God - eternal life, provided to us through our loving and merciful Christ Jesus, our Lord.  What an easy choice, don't be deceived.  Choose life.