A while ago a friend of mine posted something on a particular internet social media outlet (I'll let you guess which one I am talking about). What they wrote struck me; and for the last few days I have really been chewing it over. They wrote:It may sound simple to you, and I suppose my mind is simple. Maybe it is the simplicity of it that makes it so, dare I say profound? After all grace is profound. And, I don't think we will ever understand grace completely. Especially the grace that God gives us. But they summed it up pretty well. In reality, weren't all our bridges burned with God? And yet He longs for us and readily opens a new chapter in our lives with Him. Or, as Brennan Manning puts it, God pursues us with a furious longing, and no matter who we are, what we've done, or how many bridges we've burned with God he is always there for us. And most profoundly He is excited about us. That my friends is irresistible grace.All my bridges have been burned, but you say that's how this grace thing works.
What if we tried grace like that in our own lives and with each other? How would the world see Christians? More importantly how would your life be more like Jesus'?
So, thank you to my friend who shared those words, because when grace works like that it is not only freeing, but irresistible.
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