Today I was chatting with one of my good friends from Texas Tech who also went to seminary with me. We have a ton of memories with each other, and he is a friend I can truly say I’ve lived life with.
I started off a g-chat conversation with retelling one of our favorite friendship memories… all in quotes. I would quote my line, then I’d quote his line, and this continued until the story was told. There was no elaboration to the situation, just great one liners that would only capture the moment if you had actually been in it.
Just the thought of that night brings a huge smile to my face, and pondering the play by play results in great laughter.
When he had read through my series of quotes his response was immediately, “hahahahahahahaha.”
To that I asked him, “Do you think when we get to heaven God will say, ‘What in the WORLD were you guys thinking?!’”
Then he said something amazing… “I think he’ll say, ‘You have no idea how much grace I’ve given you.’”
I literally was put back in my chair when I read that… it just hit me. I mean, I went from the sitting halfway off your chair, kind of hunched over your computer with your fingers ready to type back a response position, to the sit completely back in your chair where your heals lift up from pushing with your toes and make you recline position… thinking, “Wow! I love the gospel.”
Last night at youth I talked about our hearts and how we can actually harden them towards God. Then one of the ways to keep our hearts from being hardened was to continue to preach to ourselves.
What kind of stuff should we preach to ourselves? Well, we can start with knowing that God has given us so much grace!
“You have no idea how much grace I’ve given you…”
Think about that, and let that truth result in a greater love for God and His Word… “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound…”
Rid Yourselves of Hypocrisy
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