Romans on Grace

As I am studying Romans chapters 5-8, the first thing I have to admit is that there's so much I don't understand about grace, and have never understood... but it's starting to make sense. These chapters explain how our body is dead through the law, (which was made to combat sin,) and how the law could not bring life, but that Jesus' death provides us with the atonement we need and the grace to have life through Christ. I felt like my spirit was drinking these passages, do you know what I mean?

This verse in particular stood out to me: Romans 8:33-34 "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."

Maybe it's my personality filtering what I've always heard, but I've heard so much that sounds more like condemnation from the law than exhortation to live to Christ through His grace. For some reason that really stood out to me. Yes, I have sin and the law requires death for sin, but because of Jesus' atonement I have this option: I, who was dead anyhow, can die totally to my sin, joining Christ in death, and forgo the preoccupation of society with tangible and physical pleasure and instead choose to live by the Spirit as a servant of Jesus (which is what is real anyhow, the physical is a mirage.)

Paul is complicated, and in the past that made it harder to pay attention to all of the details that keep stacking up after commas in his verses, but this time I felt like God opened my understanding to things that, while I have heard, I didn't really GRASP. There's so much about grace that I still don't understand, but a little at a time is still nice progress.

May you sense His grace on you today,