God's Promise: Pure Gift

This is why the fulfillment of God’s promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God’s promise arrives as pure gift. Rom 4.16; The Message Love the way The Message frames Rom. 4.16: God's promise arrives as pure gift. This is hard to wrap my brand around because while we preach grace as followers of Christ, we live out law. We secretly want God's promise to arrive through our good works, but it will never come that way.  It arrives as pure gift from God.   You can't work for a free gift; you can only receive it.