OK, still another thought from Yancey's book on grace.
"God loves us because of who he is and because of who we are."
I'll probably be adding a few more of these quotes as I work through the book.
I'm finding out like Yancey did that it is difficult to come up with a brief, powerful, definition of grace. Unmerited favor is brief and even accurate definition but it doesn't come close to giving me the sense of the overpowering nature of grace.
And I wonder what a day or a week would look like if I purposefully lived and shared grace. It's funny I'm not sure how I would even start to go about doing that. How would my day change, my interactions with people, my prayers, etc. And then I wonder as a long time follower of Jesus am I subconsciously, at least in part, living in and through grace already? I like to think so. But I think I have a long way to go.
And if grace is as I believe, overwhelming if not overpowering, shouldn't I almost feel it cruising through my veins. But gratitude, forgiveness, generousity are not easy parts of my being.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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