Welcome to Hank’s Place.
I so enjoy sharing with you the incredible change to living, real living, that the Cross, that Jesus’ life given for us, has made. Life is all about Jesus. God’s mercies and grace, His love expressed toward us, is revealed in Christ Jesus – and it just keeps getting better the more we come to know Him!
Before the Cross, there was the Law – it was the epitome of what Paul calls the elementary principles of this world, Col 2:8 & 20. Men had come up with own ideas of how live to get ahead, to succeed. God gave us His: the LAW.
It one sense it is very logical, ‘easy’ to assimilate and understand.
Paraphrasing, “If you do well, you will be rewarded – if you do not do well, you will be punished.” Look around this world – everywhere you look you find this same practice. People struggling to keep their version of the Law.
What “Doing well” means may vary. God’s Law has only good things, but people may come up with odd things, questionable things that include cheating, stealing, back stabbing and worse. People call them ‘good’ if they can get away with them.
But then we have GRACE. And grace is beyond puzzling.Take David, the sweet Psalmist of Israel. Who became an adulterer and murderer. And by grace became the Psalmist once again.
Or Peter, who swore he would never deny Christ and did just that – 3 times. Declaring something 3 times in Jewish culture made it a permanent and irrevocable truth – but wait! Peter became Jesus’ messenger and leader in the early Church.
Then there was Zacchaeus: tax collector and crook. Someone has said the cleanest part of his life was the money he laundered. But grace abounded; Jesus had time for him and it changed Zacchaeus’ life.
Grace upon grace.
It seems God is looking for more ways to ‘get us home’ – to include us – than to keep us out. There is not person who came to God seeking grace and did not find it! Receive His grace today my friend, and COME ALIVE!
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