Grace is Greater
- Jan 15, 2021
- 2 min read
“How can someone know all of these things that I have done and still love me?”
I said before that grace is a whole conversation in itself. For most people grace is a difficult thing to understand. As humans, we feel as though we have to deserve the things that are given to us or that we get, but NONE of us deserve grace. Let me just be honest with you for a second: we deserve punishment, we deserve death, we deserve to perish, but God loves us and He didn’t want us to experience death. So, He sent His son who knew no sin to die for us so that our sins could be saved.
One of my favorite quotes on grace, I heard at camp and it was “Grace gives us blessings and favors we don’t deserve and holds back punishment we do deserve.”
It’s just God. It’s just grace. There is not a single thing we could do to put ourselves in the grace of God and there’s not a single thing we could do that would take us out of the grace of God. It is because of who Jesus is and what Jesus has done that we have this favor. This favor called grace that is undeserved, unmerited and unearned.
We could never deserve or earn the favor and grace that God gives us. Believe it or not that is good news, actually that is WONDERFUL news. You don’t have to do anything but believe that God sent his son to die for us so that we could be saved.
We don’t have to be afraid that we will fail or fear things that may go wrong. We all fail each day, and that’s okay because of grace. Not one of us is perfect. To expect someone to be perfect is just wrong and it is setting yourself and them up for failure. We have to learn to give people grace, just as we have to learn to accept grace from others. A lot of times we are our own biggest critics and don’t forgive ourselves when others do forgive us. We hold ourselves to a higher standard than others hold us to. While that is okay, it’s not okay to never forgive yourself or give yourself a bit of grace when you mess up.
My song for this post is Who Am I by Casting Crowns
“Not because of who I am but because of what you’ve done. Not because of what I’ve done, but because of who you are.”
A few verses to read in conjunction with this:
Romans 5:8
Romans 6:14
Ephesians 2:8
2 Corinthians 12:9
John 1:17
John 3:16
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