I met a guy at a house warming party who used to come to my church when he was a teenager. He was telling me how he wandered away from the Lord, but now he was back. He said 'the grace of God is ridiculous'.
The grace of God is ridiculous. I love that description. Calvin said irresistible grace. I'm going for ridiculous grace.
I mean, grace is what we are constantly learning. Grace teaches us how to forgive, how to give, how to live. Grace that changes our hearts. Grace that means that everytime we fall flat on our face, or stray or stumble, the grace of God is always there to restore us. Grace that means its not by our own efforts. Grace that means that a squeaky clean track record means diddly squat, for we are all on equal footing at the foot of the cross. Grace takes away the Pharisee's pride of clean living. But by the costly grace of God, go I.
Grace- amazing, irresistible, costly, rich and free. I'm going to throw around ridiculous.
Ridiculous grace. Isn't it?
1 comment:
man I love that description too! Just so true!
Im currently working my way through a book by Michael Card called 'A Violent Grace' - violent, you could add that to your list too, interesting concept i thought, not one of the first wrods you think of to describe God's grace, but it actually fits quite well when you examine it...
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