What is grace? The most basic definition is "unmerited favor." God has been stretching my understanding of grace for the past ten years. He has been taking me deeper into the incomprehensible depths of His grace toward me. His grace not only saved me from eternal death, by forgiving me of all my sin and making me a new creature, but His grace also enables me to live the Christian life.
It is this second part, grace for living, which was completely new to me. As a minister of music, I sang many songs about grace from the hymnbooks. Most of those hymns were about God's saving grace, but they didn't mention God's grace for living. I was dependent on His grace for salvation, but I was depending on my self-effort to be obedient to God's commandments for living. I didn't realize that was a broken system, even though the outcome of my Christian walk was very broken.
Tom Price IOM Staff Writer
Contact: Tom Price Print PDF of This Article: Print Explore IOM's Article Archive: Here
|