Grace

I am still fascinated by Grace.  Looking at life through the eyes of Grace rather than through the eyes of Sin.  Sin, in that you see yourself in shame that you aren’t good enough, you aren’t enough, that you have too much Sin (or too many sins).  This puts Sin in the limelight.  If you put God’s grace in the limelight, then it shines on Sin and exposes it for what it really is: dumb stuff.  Sin wants to be on center stage.  I want to put Christ’s love on center stage.

I am trying to decipher something Adam Miller said in Grace in Not God’s Backup Plan.

Here it is:  “To understand grace, we have to surrender a very natural assumption.  We have to stop pretending that the world revolves around us.  We have to let God be the center of the universe. We have to stop looking at God’s grace from the perspective of our sin and, instead, let sin appear in the light of grace.  And this grace is everywhere. God’s work of creation is a grace.  His work of sustaining that created world is a grace.  His willingness to shape us in his image and let us make our own way is a grace.  His gift of the law is a grace.  His Son is a grace.  And His willingness to stand by us, regardless of our weakness and wanderings, is a grace.”

Let sin appear in the light of grace.  That is what I am trying to understand.  It is a profound perspective.  Instead of saying I am such a sinner, poor me, maybe we are giving sin too much power over us.  Sin likes to be in the lime light.  Since grace came first, if I were to shine it on my sins, how do my sins look?  Like dumb actions that make no sense at all.  The sins should just shrivel up in the light of God’s grace.

Thanks,

Scott