![]() ![]() And indeed, the biblical narrative does seem to flow from age to age. We tend to think of everything as happening on a timeline. We fail to understand the reach of the cross. He is fully capable of remaining perfectly holy while at the same time extending unconditional, limitless love to even the chiefs of sinners.Īnd may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.Įphesians 3:18 NLT 2. But from our perspective, we’re so afraid we’ll give too much grace we’re afraid to simply state his love without making sure we’ve added the necessary call to justice.īut God’s love and grace aren’t limited or conditional in the way that ours is. That’s why we always seem to have to issue a disclaimer, like, God loves you unconditionally, but he hates your sin and wants you to repent…ĭoes God hate sin? Yes. That’s what we tell ourselves, even if subconsciously. So surely God must work the same way, right? Former friends are left bewildered by the erosion of a friendship. I love you unless… (you get the picture)įar too many of us have been sent the signal that we’ll be loved until we cross some arbitrary line and go too far.I love you because… (implying conditions).While God says, I love you, we often say things like, We live in a world of limited, conditional love. I think there are three primary reasons we struggle with the idea of both giving and receiving grace. ![]() ![]() It just seems too easy.īe forgiven, instantly, of even the most heinous of sins by a holy and righteous God because we placed our faith in his Son? The subject of grace continues to be a sticky one for us. We have a hard time giving grace for lots of reasons – the hurt is too deep, we’ve wrongly ranked their sin as worse than ours, or we still haven’t received grace yet.We have a hard time receiving grace because we either feel that we’re too undeserving to have the undeserved favor of God, or that we’re okay and don’t really need it.It’s grace, after all, right?īut in reality, grace is really hard. ![]()
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