Day 27-Grace and Truth

My Prayer: Psalm 100:4 (New International Version)
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.


The Reading: John 1-2
John 1:17 (New International Version)
17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.


My Thoughts: The law came through Moses, grace and truth through Jesus. What does that mean? Jesus answered over and over the questions of the Pharisees and teachers who tried to trip him up. He was a great teacher, a rabbi, a man who knew the law and boiled it down to the basics for us. And thanks to him, it doesn't have a hold on us anymore. We could never come to God while under Moses' law. We mess up. I mess up. Jesus brought grace and truth, light in the dark. We spend a lot of time doing our best to check off the list of things on our "Christian To-Do" list, given to us through the law of Moses. Thank God we aren't under that law anymore. I would never measure up. Jesus brought us a new law, a new agreement with God. All we have to do now is follow the Son, the son he sent to save the world.