Grace can be dangerous from a secular point of view. If the flood or our sin is always overcome by the tidal wave of God's grace, isn't it possible for Christians to live however they want to? That is the big question about grace that is raised in Romans 6.

The answer given in verse 2 is "by no means! We died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?" As followers of Christ we died to sin at salvation. Our position is "in Christ" and God sees us without the sin that so markedly stains us. The goal of the Christian life is for our practice to match our position. We are dead to the penalty of sin, but not the power of sin. We struggle daily to live a holy life. A good prayer to pray today is to ask God to help you understand how He sees you (clean, pure, forgiven, without sin) and then to help you live that way today. We will never be sinless this side of eternity, but we can sin less as we allow the reality of what Christ has done for us to motivate how we think about ourselves and how we live our lives.