What is Grace?

Grace is to see what’s in my heart, my motives, my desires, to look beyond what I say and do, and still forgive me. It is not that the more you understand me, the easier it would be to forgive me, it is precisely the opposite. God gives wisdom freely, He gives His Holy Spirit freely. I have His scriptures freely, and in them is contained all that is necessary for life and Godliness. I have everything I need, yet still I sin.

The sheer amount God has fed me, the sheer amount He has given me. I have everything I need, and much more, and yet so often I despise that.

One of my friends was once struggling with the amount he had hurt his girlfriend, the things he had said to her, the way he broke up with her, and he knew it could never be the same. Yet, in all this, the only one we can be sure is not ashamed of us is the very one who sees more of our sin than anyone else.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.

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