Amazing Grace

I've been thinking about grace lately.  These are just my simple observations, just a little bit of what's in my heart. 

We Need Grace For Every Place

Sometimes we don't allow grace to work in our lives the way we should. Sometime we view our shyness or self pity (which is really just pride) as "humility", sometimes we view our fear as a "meekness" (when it's really just a lack of trust), when we say that being nervous means we "care" or that we worry about someone because we "love" them - I think that's the enemy of grace, when we justify our worry and shortcomings or when we call them something they aren't - when we think we don't need grace for those parts of our lives.

Grace Overcomes

We deserve to live our lives in fear, we deserve to be weak and anxious and worried, we deserve to feel helpless and worthless. We don't deserve grace. We need to accept that we don't deserve grace and then we need to accept it. Grace takes our anxiety, fear, worry, inadequacies, tempers, pity parties, bad attitudes and covers them, but grace also overcomes them, that's the important part. 

Paul sums it up nicely in Romans chapter 6, I recommend grabbing your bible and reading the whole chapter, but here's the first part:

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

- Romans 6:1-2

True weakness might be knowing that we are strong because of grace, true meekness might be knowing that we are mighty because of grace, true humility might be knowing that we have confidence because of grace.

There's a lot I don't know about grace, and there's a lot for me to learn about grace but here's what I do know:

Grace breaths life into this broken world, it make us into the people we we're meant to be; grace makes us alive in Christ. Grace is what I don't deserve, yet grace is what I receive. 

Maybe that's why we call it amazing grace.