A lot of Christian's talk about the sovereignty of God & about the amazing grace He shows to us as His children.
I'm quite sure that everyone can agree that we'll never really understand just how great He is in His grace. How intricate and complex the gift of grace is, how much grace He in reality extends and how often.
Recently I had one very ginormous problem & not really a problem that I could even solve right away or make go away. The failure on my part even though I may have been doing the best that I could caused a massive dilemma that will only be resolved over time. However, in the midst of this trial A conversation took place where I was able to see that I had been extended grace in a very huge way. In such a way that you're just dumbfounded by the greatness of it, but also, in awe of the grace you realize how heart wrenching it is that the grace had to be extended in the first place. You feel your heart squeeze tight because it hurts that you caused someone else to work - put in extra effort to be patient, supportive, loving and forgiving. You feel tears well up in your eyes because you didn't realize how significant the issue was or all of the little details that made the issue at last unbearable.
Don't think I'm overlooking the fact that God will work in the situation and in time all will be well again- a long time but it will get there. I fully intend to do everything I can to get it there at least.
I believe this is partially how it is with God. On our side- we don't see how significant our sin is and just how much grace God is in reality giving. We don't see that He will continue to give us grace on an every day basis because God's patience never wears thin. We fail and He allows us to fail so that He can teach/grow us and show us how great He is in being able to continually forgive us of our flaws.
The situation that I'm in currently made me realize - grace is huge. A gift that maybe I'm not that great at giving or perhaps I just needed to understand better what His grace looks like.
If a mere human could show that kind of grace & extend that sort of love- just imagine what His grace looks like.
Amazing. That's the only picture I can come up with. I guess maybe that's why there is a hymn called "Amazing Grace" eh?
Love to you cool people <3 xo
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