Grace. How do we define it? John Wesley called it ‘free underserved favour.’ In the current climate do we perhaps need to be reminded of grace as a concept? I guess in this day and age it is easy to feel that somehow our salvation must be earned. That somehow our faith journey is to be based on all our own strength and that somehow we have to persuade God that we are worthy.
But grace is so important to our everyday lives at this very moment in time because perhaps we need to encounter the grace of God more than ever. We need to seek God’s face in prayer, to come before him in supplication and repentance. And we as the church need to be seeking to communicate the grace of God to the world in new ways that are relevant to this age. By the same token, grace is also a timeless concept. We need to take care that when we seek to communicate the Gospel, we do so in a way that is sensitive and motivated out of a sense of care for others and passion for God and not because we feel we are on a lone mission to reverse the perceived decline in church numbers. So in essence we need to allow grace to communicate grace without our interference.
Our role is to be instruments in the great symphony of God’s love. To not allow our individual sound become so loud that we drown out the music around us and that way we play our part in something magnificent…God’s amazing plan of grace.
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