Sometimes You Don't Get What You Deserve-and That's Good.
Unmerited favor. Kindness we don't deserve. Sanctification in it's purest and most genuine form. I struggle to understand grace . I think I struggle to understand it, because I so often struggle to extend it. Complete and total redemption, offered to me at no cost and with no limitations. It's hard to grasp. Sometimes, it's even hard for me to accept. We live in a world where we have to earn our favor, we have to prove our worth, a world where we have to be good enough to be accepted. Yet, that's so paradoxical to how Jesus models for us to live. I've been a Christian for 25 years now. I've gone through so many highs and lows in my walk with Christ. There have been times, when I've walked so closely with Him that I could all but feel His arms wrapped around me, guiding my every step. There have been other times, when I've wandered so far away from Him, that it seemed it was all I could do to stretch my arms and grasp His finger ti