Grace

So the discussion lately among blogging friends has been about grace. I love this. We're just Christian people around the same age all over the US who are helping each other to stay focused on our relationship with Christ. What a cool thing! Anyway, here's an excerpt that applies to the grace topic that I read today. Enjoy!

From "When God Whispers Your Name" by Max Lucado:

You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your care you watched over my life. Job 10:12

"Discipline is easy for me to swallow. Logical to assimilate. Manageable and appropriate. But God's grace? Anything but. Examples? How much time do you have? David the psalmist becomes David the voyeur, but by God's grace becomes David the psalmist again. Peter denied Christ before he preached Christ. Zacchaeus, the crook. The cleanest part of his life was the money he'd laundered. But Jesus still had time for him. The thief on the cross: hell-bent and hung-out-to-die one minute, heaven-bound and smiling the next. Story after story. Prayer after prayer. Surprise after surprise. Seems that God is looking more for ways to get us home than for ways to keep us out. I challenge you to find one soul who came to God seeking grace and did not find it."