PHANEROO~DEVOTION 12th January 2016 THE WINGS OF GRACE II Apostle Grace Lubega

[Romans 4:8]; Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

When I was in school, I and a group of my friends used to go out of our way to be stubborn. We would stand outside our class rooms and wait for a teacher. Whenever any teacher would see us, he would say, ‘enter your classes’ and we would refuse. When we saw him come closer, we would scatter in different directions.

One day, a certain teacher appeared out of nowhere. We saw him a little too late. Incidentally, he was fat and could not run very fast.  He sighted me and another student. He kept calling our names but we ignored him and kept running. As we ran, he started to count. ‘Those are fifteen…those are seventeen.’ By the time he reached thirty six, we were wondering why we were even running seeing that the more we ran, the more number of canes we amassed. When a man starts to count and reaches thirty five, you ask yourself, suppose he gets to eighty? One thing I was certain about was that he would not hesitate to deliver those eighty lashes. I asked my friends, ‘why are we running?’ So we stopped and slowly turned back.

Some people think God is like that; counting, ‘thirty three…thirty six…thirty nine’. No, he does not impute sin. He is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and full of mercy.

Excerpt from the sermon: GOD’S MIND ON IMPUTATION by Apostle Grace Lubega

God is merciful, gracious, slow to anger and full of mercy.

Scripture Reference: 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 2:4