This is my first post on my own blog. I guess I will start where I am in my life at this current moment. What if God's grace is true? What does this mean for the people of the world? How should it effect, not only our lives, but the lives of those around us? Grace, to me, means that there is nothing that we can do to make God love us more and nothing that we can do to make God love us less. God has loved us before the moment we were thought of or born. I encounter so many people who seem to be unable to grasp this concept. We somehow feel that we must make ourselves perfect to have an experience of God. However, I have found God in the valley's of life, walking with me and carrying me. As a Christian, I believe that Jesus Christ paid the price for "sin" and made the way to God for everyone, not just the privileged few who do enough good. I do think that Jesus was actually talking to those who think they are the "privileged few" when he told the people that "many will say to me in that day Lord, Lord, but I will tell them depart from me for I never knew you." (not a direct quote) If grace is true I think it means that we are to give it to all just as it was given to us by God. This means that we must show love, mercy and acceptance to those who we think would not deserve it and would never be given it by God. However, we are given it so why not them?
This is where I think that if we all apply this principle to our lives, what a difference it would make. So many who claim that they know God and do not apply this principle to their own lives, much less give this gift to others. So how hard is it, and why is it so hard for us to accept the gift that God so freely gives? What is so hard to believe that the Creator made the creation and desires to redeem it all. Is it so hard to believe that God never wants to be separated from any of the creation? For those of us who have children, how do we love them? Are they loved with conditions or with a set of rules, or do we love them no matter when we are disappointed in the choices they make? Why would God love any differently? We are all loved and accepted, do we really accept it and believe it ourselves? How would it change how we live and interact with those around us? How would it change how we see others that cross our path that we would usually cast some type of judgmental statement in our thoughts? Do we realize that we are all connected and in need of love and acceptance to survive and feel that connection?
This is where I think that if we all apply this principle to our lives, what a difference it would make. So many who claim that they know God and do not apply this principle to their own lives, much less give this gift to others. So how hard is it, and why is it so hard for us to accept the gift that God so freely gives? What is so hard to believe that the Creator made the creation and desires to redeem it all. Is it so hard to believe that God never wants to be separated from any of the creation? For those of us who have children, how do we love them? Are they loved with conditions or with a set of rules, or do we love them no matter when we are disappointed in the choices they make? Why would God love any differently? We are all loved and accepted, do we really accept it and believe it ourselves? How would it change how we live and interact with those around us? How would it change how we see others that cross our path that we would usually cast some type of judgmental statement in our thoughts? Do we realize that we are all connected and in need of love and acceptance to survive and feel that connection?
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