I'd Scrap That!

Midweek Study with Pastor Edith
November 13, 2024
Ephesians 2:1-10

I saw a bumper sticker on a truck in the grocery store parking lot that caught my attention, it read; “I’d Scrap That”. I figured that the owner was in the business of collecting and scrapping metal or other discarded objects, but at the same time I thought perhaps I should utilize that statement as I walk this pilgrim journey with Christ, called Life.

Part of our text for today has the Apostle Paul encouraging believers to be brutally honest with themselves and face the fact that all believers in Christ were “once dead in transgressions…All of us also lived among the disobedient, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath” (Ephesians 2:1-3a). This is the part where I hear Jesus saying; “I’d Scrap That!”

The really good news comes next in verses 4-5; “But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved”. I’m hearing a marvelous old hymn in my head; “Marvelous grace of our loving God. Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt! Yonder on Calvary’s mount out-poured-there where the blood of the lamb was spilt. Grace, grace, God’s grace, Grace will pardon and cleanse with-in; Grace, grace, God’s grace, Grace that is greater than all our sin!” (“Grace Greater than Our Sin” written by Julia H. Johnston 1910).

 We all have something to scrap. Some things we will scrap daily. Why not hold onto God’s promise of his marvelous grace while scrapping today. May we walk in God’s grace and peace today and every day.

Amen!