Receiving the Gift

The crisis is they think it’s the way they deserve to be. They have not known the truth that would set them free.

They are victimised, existing as if living on death row rather than enjoying the beauty and clean air of the abounding life Christ modeled and made feasible for all of His supporters to make a claim. Sadly , most don’t have any idea as to what they are missing. That is what is being attacked so ceaselessly, so violently. Those that are not cushty rejecting it have made a decision to debate it. Like the times of the Protestant Reformation, grace has again become a theological soccer kicked from one end of the field to the other as clergymen and bible thumpers, students and scholars disagree over terms like annoyed coaches on opposite sides making an attempt to gain benefit over each other. It’s a classic no-win debate that trivializes the issue and leaves the masses who watch the fight from the stands confused, polarized, or worst of all, bored. Grace was supposed to be received and lived out to the fullest, not dissected and researched by those that would rather disagree than eat.

It’s time for grace to be awakened and released, not denied. To be enjoyed and openly given, not discussed. To spend one’s time discussing how grace is received or how much commitment is mandatory for deliverance, without getting into what it suggests to live by grace and experience the superb liberty it provides, quickly leads to a counter-productive debate.

It becomes little more than another boring unimportant pursuit where the bulk of God’s folk spend days casting backwards and asking, “How did we get it?” instead of looking forward and saying, “Grace is ours.

My plea is that we claim it and permit it to set us free. When we do, grace will become what it was intended to be—really superb.