Grace

Grace

Dear Champions,

The short excerpt is by Dave Busby, and the scripture is Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.

Do you know what most Christians' good news is?  They start with the fact that you are a sinner and need to receive the gift of salvation.  That part is true, then they add . . .

'Now you must do this and this and this if you want to continue to keep God happy with you!'

And so most Christians feel that God is disappointed with them.  They think that they're never doing well enough.  They are living under the list.  Maybe they started out living by grace, but now they have regressed to living under the rules.

The more we understand grace-that our acceptance and our value to God are not based on our performance, the more we can begin to REST—because of what Jesus has already accomplished. 

The more I understand grace, the more it has motivated me to fall deeper in love with Jesus.  Grace motivates me far more towards holiness than pressure to keep a list ever could.  Maybe it's just harder to sin against love and grace than to sin against the law.

 

Champions, have a great week!-David Vining