“Grace” has been on my mind a lot lately. I was just thinking of the song:
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that is greater than all our sin!
What has made me think so much about God’s grace lately is reading the book The Hardest Peace by Kara Tippetts. What amazing grace that woman needed – and received – as she went through the horror of dying slowly from cancer.
I have frequently wondered about the purpose of life over recent years. It seems so pointless at times. We live. We die. Why? Sure, there are relationships during life that make it really wonderful at times. Still, what’s the purpose? As I’ve been reading the Bible I’ve been looking for an answer to that question. I think of Kara Tippett’s life – having four children and a happy marriage and yet getting cancer and dying and leaving four young children with no mother. What’s the point? I see muslim terrorists beheading people, persecuting their own people for non-sins, and I wonder where is mercy and grace.
I’m a worrier – and that’s not a good thing. I lie in bed sometimes and worry about things I did back in childhood, as a teenager and young adult. And then I think about how crazy that is. So I was immature and thoughtless and full of myself? What teenager/young adult or adult hasn’t been at one time or another? Yet, here I am – still mentally berating myself for stupid sins 10, 15, 25, 45 years later.
And where does grace come into play? Is it possible to have peace with past sins – to not think of them and feel bad about them? It is interesting how, at the time, one can justify some pretty bad behavior.
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