The Power Of One

LORD, you were all it took to speak the universe into existence. How beautiful is your Creation! It reflects your perfection.

But it is not so perfect anymore. And it also took but one to make it so:

Romans 5:12 (NIV)
"...sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned..."

How terrible that because of this one, Adam, we must taste pain and disease. Because of one, life in this world leads only and without exception to an appointment with death.

Still, in all your wondrous might, dear God, you also only needed one to restore hope:

Romans 5:15 (NIV)
"...if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!"

How comforting, Father, that even when we still need to struggle through the accursed condition of this earth, we need not fear death. Jesus Christ has given eternal life to those who trust in his completed work:

Romans 5:18 (NIV)
"Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men."

Hallelujah! Jesus' Name be glorified.

For it is in his Mighty Name that I pray it. Amen.

Red or blue? Right or left? Conservative or liberal? Jesus Christ is above all. Heaven is infinitely better than any utopia, conservative or liberal. Best of all, it is an actual place, not an unattainable dream.

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