February 25, 2013
Giving Grace
They closed
a lane on 66 again. The orange sign says
left lane closed ahead, merge right.
After a long, deep, heavy sigh, I put on my turn signal and join the
slow moving line in the right lane. Of
course, there are a few people behind me who think that if they wait to merge,
they can get ahead of a few people and get home 3 seconds before they would
have. My tendency is to ride as close to
the bumper of the car in front of me as I can so that no one can squeeze in front
of me. They can wait like the rest of
us!
Why is it
so hard for me to be gracious to people?
I tell myself it is because they are not doing right (they should wait
in line) so they don’t deserve my grace.
This really doesn’t work when we are talking about grace. Grace, by its very definition, is not
deserved. I Timothy 1:14 says that I am
the recipient of grace that has been poured out on me abundantly. I certainly wasn’t doing right when God
poured out his grace. I didn’t deserve
for Him to love me, forgive me and bless me.
But He has, abundantly! I now
live in that abundant, overflowing grace.
How can I then hoard that grace or dispense it conditionally? Living in this abundant grace compels me to
share that grace with others, others who don’t necessarily deserve it.
Okay, I’m
easing up on the gas pedal, letting in a shiny BMW… grace.
I Timothy 1:14
“The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly,
along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus”
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