Judgment and Grace
Judgment and Grace
” 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.” Gen 3:21-23 NIV
The Garden of Eden was a prime example
Of God’s judgment and grace.
God clothed Adam and Eve and cared for them,
But no longer dwelt with them face to face.
Sin finds its destruction
In the presence of our Creator.
To preserve them by His grace
This sentence of death presented later.
Although Adam and Eve fell;
God gave them grace and hope;
Judgment stands in the background
Of this grace and hope kaleidoscope.
From the beginning of fallen human history
Sin, judgment and God’s grace emerges.
Some say there is no judgment,
But let’s recall ‘the flood’s’ scourges.
We may no longer be under the law,
But it’s still there to show what’s right.
Grace is freely given by heaven
When sin’s repentance finds its sight.
Without God’s judgment, forever evil would reign
We’d have no hope of a better world;
Sin, sorrow and death to remain.
Judgment and grace cannot be parted;
They unite in one accord.
Judgment in the heavenly sanctuary
Is presently accumulating records.
When Christ returns the second time,
Judgment will have ceased.
That’s why He brings His rewards
To the righteous living and deceased.
Copyright © Maureen LeFanue 2012
www.maureenlefanue.com
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