Father, we ask that you’d help us to see what it means to really know we’re saved by grace. How radical that is! It means the prostitutes and the tax collectors get into the kingdom of God first. It means those of us who have been very good need to recognize a deeper kind of repentance. It really means all of us now know there is a hopeful humility and deep security that only comes when we understand the gospel.
This is the gospel, that you sent your Son, who died for us while we were yet enemies. You sent your Son, and he died at our very hands. You did it because you wanted us. We ask that you’d help us to understand and live this out through the power of your Spirit. In Jesus’ name we ask it, amen.