SIN AND GRACE

I'm convinced we will not and cannot understand the unlimited reach of either sin or grace. 

Sin is like the national debt.  Who can fathom millions in the dollars?  Extend that to billions and I have trouble writing that number out on paper let alone grasping the concept more than "lots".  Yet now our national debt is in terms of trillions....when I was completely under at millions.

Grace's scope is yet another unimaginable fascination.  It is of the brilliance of current technology.  I battled the office powers when they wanted me to get a mouse instead of clicking a key on the computer.  I drug my feet at a mouse.  Now that is pretty ha ha ha material right there.

But bring in iPhones and iPads and iDrops (ooops not the last one) and I'm sunk.  I don't get it.  I have this blog only because I signed up for something completely different and accidentally established this.  Google is coming out with a mind-reading scan that when we cruise to find the weather in Juneau, Alaska as soon as we type in weather in j it will finish with immediate choices like jackson, ms., jacksonville, il., or juneau, ak.  Who puts all this data into a 3 x 5 iPhone?  How does one tuck that much info into that little of a space?

Sin is so enormous we can't possibly begin to pay it off and grace is so extreme that our imagination as to how it works only expands its ability to work.

The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more...Romans 5:20.  Who can understand this?  Who can explain it?  All we can do is believe it.  That would insist faith be a significant size. 

Otherwise we will try to humanize sin and grace and conclude very little of either.