GRACE
I love the Saint Therese quote "Everything is Grace." I love the biblical greeting "Grace and Peace to You." I love that Presbyterian churchs call themselves "Ministries of Grace."
What exactly is "Grace?" It's essentially an intense Love that is given without deserving it or doing anything worthy of it. It is by GRACE that you are saved, not of any good work of your own, lest any man should boast.
The road to the Cross is one of cosmic Grace the likes of which the earth had never witnessed before or since. Man's sins did require an atonement. God had enough of goats and sheep. So he gave his one and only Son so that WHOSOEVER believes in him and calls on his name will be atoned for. Gentile or Jew -Whosoever.
This was an act of unsurpassed unfathomable Love. We can't wrap our heads around it all. We could not do anything to buy our way into God's graces, God's grace had to come to us from God on his own terms- and he gave it to us for free because we could not do anything to merit or pay for it ourselves in ourselves.
What should be the response to this sort of overwhelming Love-
The response should be that we try to become it-a chip off the old block- that we try to give out the same unmerited undeserved Love to others. That we pay the debts that others cannot pay, that we meet the needs that other's cannot meet. That we do, essentially all the Matthew 25 things to people that we have power to do- because these are acts of Grace.
Whenever you do for someone something they need to survive that they cannot do for themselves, you manifest Christ's Grace in the world. And this is what he wants for all of us to do in so far as it is in our power.
John McAurthur preaches; 1-888-57-GRACE
GRACE TO YOU
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