Amelia Student Ministries - Amelia Church of Christ

I’m sure many of you have heard the song “The Good Life” by Three Days Grace.  I recently heard this song…again, and it really made me start thinking.  This is an incredibly sad song. All it talks about is the if he can have a little bit more fun, more money, more, more more, then he will be able to be happy.  Many of us can look at that and immediately see what is wrong with that theory. If all you ever want is more, then it will never be enough and you will never be happy.

The problem is that many of us pretty much pray this prayer to God all the time. How often do we as Christians fall on our knees to plead to God for more grace?  For more strength? For more forgiveness? We don’t need to ask these things from God. He has already given us what we need. When we are baptized into Christ, we get everything that we need. We receive forgiveness and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Often when we sin and fall short, in our guilt and shame we plead for God to be merciful on us and forgive us and give us more grace.  He already has…2 Corinthians 12:9 “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” Christ’s death is enough for us. In 1 Peter 3:18, it says that “Christ died for sin once for all….” One time, was enough for all sins; every sin you ever commit is covered by the blood of the death of the cross.

We don’t have to walk around miserable and defeated when we sin because we know that our sin is forgiven. Already, we don’t need more. I will however caution you. Paul writes about this to the Romans in 6:1-2, “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” We should never sin just for the sake of gaining more grace.  Being forgiven will NOT justify living in sin. But it doesn’t mean we have to live in constant fear of not being forgiven either.  We have the good life already because we are forgiven.