The Offer of Grace

The Offer of Grace

Here is a novel thought.  Grace is offered to everyone.  EVERYONE.  To put it another way, there is no one to whom grace is refused.

There are no disclaimers on grace. 

~You can have grace if you give.

~You can have grace if you haven’t committed sin in the last sixty days.

~You can have grace if you live in the Southern region, or in France.

Well, you get my point.

There are no qualifiers, no rigid lines drawn in the sand as to who can and cannot receive the grace of God.  It is available to all who will receive. 

The bad get grace.

The pretty good get grace.

The saints get grace.

Women get it.

Men get it.

The beat up, the down-trodden, the outcasts, the ones with torn clothes, the one’s whose breath reeks of gin, or whose teeth are stained with tobacco-they are offered grace.  

Grace is offered to all. 

God is not trying to catch us in a moment of weakness.  He doesn’t threaten us with some snide remark like “you will pay for that.”

He wants to come and join our human festivities, the birthday parties, the bar mitzvahs, the weddings, the ball games, and the awards banquets. 

He is a God who understands that children will always get dirty, they’ll tear their clothes, fall off the swing set, and jump in mud puddles.

The point is this …

We are to experience the all-sufficient grace of God regardless of our condition, in good times, in bad times, in poverty, and in wealth.

God’s grace …

~Will get us through the darkest night.

~Will sustain us when all else fails us.

~Will turn our complaints into confessions of God’s sufficient grace.

God’s grace says this … If we sin, we have an advocate with the Father; one who pleads our case.

That’s the grace with which I identify.

I’ll accept this offer of grace any time.

Will you?

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