Vicarious

Shorty teases me sometimes saying, "Where's your sense of adventure?" Generally when I don't want to do whatever he's asking me to do! ;) One of my favorite answers is, "Se fue." That's Spanish for "gone". I used to answer the kids that way when they asked where Mama was. And Shorty began to joke that I was at "Safeway" a lot. =) As you can see, we are a silly, joking kind of family.

This morning Shorty asked me something and I said no. So we went through the, "Where's your sense of adventure?" etc... And I told him that I've realized that I like vicarious adventure best. He stopped and said, "I don't even know what that means." I explained that I like to experience adventure through books and movies-- personally and in the flesh, not so much. =)

It was funny though, as he left the room to get ready for work, I began thinking that I actually need vicarious righteousness! Because of the sin nature that I-- and everyone else-- inherited from Adam, I need someone to be good in my place. And not just that, I need someone to pay the penalty that my sin deserves... And God supplied that THROUGH CHRIST! =)

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts  who has been gthrough the Holy Spiritiven to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-- but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Romans 5:1-11