Good morning. Back to Romans: for if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. We were reconciled to God, not the other way around. We are the ones that left. We were reconciled to God through the death of Jesus. That is awesome in itself! But we needed more. We needed Him to rise from the dead so that we could have life in ourselves. It then talks about "through one man, Adam, sin and death came into the world to all men. But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many". In both cases what one man did affected millions. One for bad, the other for good. Judgment arose from the one transgression, but the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. Because of the one, we have death, and with that came fear of death; because there was only expectation of something bad happening after that. Now we have expectation of something great happening after death. Thus we are not to fear death. Much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. We didn't just receive a little grace, we received an abundance of grace. We are also righteous in God's eyes. We are supposed to reign in life. Too many times we don't act like it though. Too many Christians act like they're barely going to make it. Who would want to become a Christian, if that's the way the Christian life is? Before Jesus sin reigned in death. The reason was - so Grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So eternal life is not our goal – it is our destiny. Father thank You for Your protection from the storm. Thank You that the reader has received the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness so that he/she reigns in life.

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