When was the last time you received grace? Grace isn't something we deserve, it is by definition receiving something we don't deserve and there is the problem for me. See I don't recognize it because I think I deserve it. I am entitled to it. Someone else owes me something because of what I've done in the past. But that isn't grace. See if I feel I've earned it somehow then I miss it. Oh it is still grace, but not in my eyes. I am ungrateful for receiving it because somehow I've screwed it up in mind that I am owed something.
That grace is played out often in my life, probably daily, but I miss it. I don't deserve an incredible wife, I don't deserve to be forgiven by friends that I take for granted, I don't deserve that I am relatively healthy, I don't do anything to earn even my next breathe... it is by grace that I receive any of it. I am beginning to understand that to see this amazing grace that is surrounding me, I have to change my perspective. I have to recognize that I am not entitled to anything. I have to be thankful for those things around me. I don't earn it. I don't deserve it. I can't be good enough to receive it. It is amazingly free. I just have to recognize it and accept it. No strings attached. No rules to follow. No earning it through doing certain things. When was the last time you experienced grace?
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