Read Genesis 3:1-21
“Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.”—Genesis 3:21
God has always been a God of grace. Time and again, God demonstrated grace by sending prophets to turn His people away from sin and to His righteousness. Even when He corrected them, God graciously pursued His people to bring them back into a relationship with Him. Apostle Paul spoke extensively about the doctrine of grace, but from the beginning, God is the author of that same comforting, affirming, and peace giving grace.
In simplest terms, grace is God’s goodness to the undeserving. By grace we are saved and covered, even in our sins. God’s grace was evident, even from man’s first sin. When Adam and Eve sin in the Garden of Eden, the promised penalty was death. Sin revealed their nakedness, which they attempted to cover with leaves. In His grace, God replaced their feeble attempt to hide their sin by taking the skin from an animal of His creation to cover man’s sin. From the beginning, blood had to be shed to pay the penalty for man’s fall. First it was an innocent animal; ultimately it was an innocent Savior…
That is the whole purpose of grace, to be most abundant when the need is greatest. For when sin is great, God’s grace is greater still, providing what we can’t provide for ourselves, covering in the form of God’s everlasting mercy, compassion and love. In the midst of every trial, struggle, or circumstance, God assures us His grace will always be sufficient.
No matter what we face, grace is that blissful assurance that even our most wretched state cannot remove us from the far reaching arms of grace. It is the proclamation of Psalm 139:7-8 that there is no place we can go away from the presence of God and the restoring touch of His everlasting grace.
Question to Ponder: Is there anything you will face today that God’s Grace can’t defeat?
“And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission” (forgiveness of sin).—Hebrews 9:22
