Being a sinner means being wrong. Since we still sin after confessing Christ, we still must deal with the fact that we are wrong when we sin. Being a Christian does not make wrong right. Being a Christian does not excuse what we do, say, or think that is wrong. Following Christ means agreeing with what is right, hating what is wrong, and asking that God make us right.
Accepting God’s grace means that we know we are wrong, that we deserve punishment for being wrong and that Jesus took the punishment on himself that we deserved. Grace does not remove the need for justice to be served; it was served on the cross. Having been excused from punishment by Jesus being punished for us, God begins the process of doing in us what we want to do but cannot do ourselves, the process of being made right, the process of being a Christian. Christians agree sin is wrong, confess and reject what is wrong in them, recognise and turn from what is wrong in the world, and depend on the ability to see and the power to become right by agreeing with and depending on the one who is right. Being right is not about me, it is about what is right and he who is right. I want to be right.
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