Grace: Available to All Who Believe

-from David Jeremiah's Captured by Grace (page 36)

"...to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." -Romans 3:22-23

"Key word: all. That is one immense three-letter word, for it measures the width of God's grace and the height of His love. God's net is as large as the number of people who are willing to fall into its safety. No one is outside the scope of His grace. There are no distinctions within the nation of the sinful, no pecking order within the league of the elect.

There are indeed degrees of sin. A jaywalker receives a lighter sentence than a murderer. But all of that is earthly reckoning - nit-picking by the standard of heaven. Because a millionth of a molecule of sin contaminates a soul, all are found guilty. And because grace cleanses us from sin just as absolutely, we find ourselves standing at the throne of grace without any human ranks or measurements. We are equally pure and clean before God. You and the apostle Paul will stand together, equally rightious in God's sight. The Father will look upon each of you and see only the purity of His own Son."