When you look up grace, there are a few definitions.
Many say grace is a flowing movement that one possesses. Others say its unusual favor.
Grace.
It’s a beautiful word in general. It flows beautifully. And it’s a beautiful thing. We can look in the bible and grace is clearly defined as undeserved favor with God.
We, horrible sinners, killers, liars, have favor with God...and we didn’t have to do anything besides choose. Can we just take a second to think about that? So what I’m saying is that all I have to do is make the choice to accept it, and its mine? I have favor with God, for free? Incredible. I feel like grace is a word that’s thrown around too often, much like love and I’m sorry. We use the word so often that is loses its really power. Grace is such an incredible, beautiful thing. Yet we just take it and say 'thanks God, catch ya on the flip side.' what is wrong with us?! This goes for me too. What if someone walked up to you and gave you $1,000, no strings attached, just out of love. Would we just grab the money and walk away, forgetting all about that person? If your answer was yes, well, I know some people you can talk to. So no, we wouldn’t just run away skipping and go on with our lives. I would run and tell the whole world that someone loved me so much that they gave me such an amazing free gift. See where I’m going with this yet? Guys, we have done nothing to deserve grace. Let me repeat that, NOTHING. Yet it’s ours for the taking because we are made clean and wonderful in the eyes of our creator. Whatttttttt. He gave us the ultimate gift, how can we not shout it at the top of a freaking mountain what He did?
“Your grace has found me just as I am, empty handed but alive in Your hands.”
His grace is a living action of a living God. His grace finds us, even when we are empty, even when we have nothing to offer. Sometimes we drag ourselves to His feet with nothing but our tears and broken hearts and plead for Him to help us and give us any amount of strength to just fight through another day here. And while we are so broken and we feel so dead, His grace makes us alive in His hands. No strings attached, He picks us up and loves us, end of story. There's no ifs, ands, or buts. He loves us when we are empty, He loves us when we sing Him praise, He loves us when the world crushes us, He loves us, always. He loves us because His grace finds us in any state, and makes us new. How convicting.
Grace.
There’s so much power in 5 simple letters that form the most beautiful gift ever given.
Ephesians 2:8
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Thats just whats been on my heart lately. "
Good stuff right there. I'm trying to get this girl on staff next year too! :)
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