From Grave to Grace

Good Morning and what a great one in Houston, Texas.  This morning I woke up to a husband with a couple of  briskets in the smoker.  I sat to write and was reminded of a mistake I made yesterday.

As I sat to write yesterday, I made a mistake I have made in the past.  I am one of those "typers" that does not look at the keys very often.  I sit down, I get comfortable and I take off. Yesterday as I wrote, I intended to write the word grace.  Instead, I inadvertently typed grave. 

The irony in it is that I was intending to type "We are saved by grace" but instead, I typed "We are saved by grave."  Upon typing it and then actually seeing it, I realized the truth in the statement.  You see, we are saved by grace but it took Christ going to the grave in order for us to receive that gift. 

He was mistreated, questioned, beaten, accused, and so much more and yet he endured it for us.  He was ultimately hung on a cross and left on that cross to his death.  His death became an opportunity for life to each of us.  The day darkened, as life left his body.   As evening approached a rich man named Joseph went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.  He took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of a rock then he rolled a stone over it and went home. [Matthew 27:57-60]. 

The grave.  It was new, it was fresh and a stone was rolled in front of it to seal it.  Not only was a stone rolled in front of it but it was also sealed and a guard posted in front of it to ensure Jesus would not fulfill the Word of God by "rising after three days."  [Matthew 27:66]

But our Savior would not be held back by a stone, or a seal, or a guard.  He came to fulfill the Word of  God and provide salvation for His people.   God loves us so much that  He sent his only son that whosoever believes in Him might be saved. [John 3:16]

Yes it is by grace that we are saved but that would not have taken place had it not been for the grave.

From the grave to grace...only our Savior could!

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.  Ephesians 2:4