2026 Reading Plan Reflections - Day 225
by Walt Martin on August 15th, 2026
After eleven chapters describing the mercy and faithfulness of God, Paul finally turns and says, in effect: Now live like people who have received that mercy...
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2026 Reading Plan Reflections - Day 224
by Walt Martin on August 14th, 2026
Paul has looked at Israel and the nations, promise and unbelief, judgment and mercy, covenant and grace. He sees a story far larger than anything human beings could have planned. Then he remembers whose story it is. “Everything is from him and through him and for him. To him be the glory forever. Amen” (v. 36). There is freedom in that confession.
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2026 Reading Plan Reflections - Day 223
by Walt Martin on August 13th, 2026
Our place in the tree should make us grateful, not arrogant. Who have we decided is probably beyond God's reach? Whose unbelief, resistance, failure, or distance from God have we begun treating as permanent?
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2026 Reading Plan Reflections - Day 222
by Walt Martin on August 12th, 2026
The Law wasn't a failed experiment that Jesus replaced. Israel’s story, its promises, and its hope were moving toward the Messiah. Jesus is where the road has been leading. And now, Paul says, God’s saving grace has come near.
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2026 Reading Plan Reflections - Day 221
by Walt Martin on August 11th, 2026
We aren't shaped by mercy simply so that we can enjoy having received mercy. We are shaped into people through whom God’s mercy can reach the world. That fits the larger story Paul has been telling from the beginning of Romans. Grace creates a new people. The Spirit forms them into the likeness of Christ. And then God sends them into the world as living evidence of what new creation looks like. The Potter is still working.
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2026 Reading Plan Reflections - Day 220
by Walt Martin on August 10th, 2026
Christian assurance is not confidence that nothing painful will happen. It's confidence that nothing painful gets to have the final word. The world still groans. Sometimes we still groan with it. But the Spirit is present in the groaning. God is still working. Christ is still interceding. Grace is still forming us.
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