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October 5, 2007
VERSE:
If you do not obey the LORD, and if you rebel against his
commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your
fathers.
-- 1 Samuel 12:15
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=1+Samuel+12:15
THOUGHT:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer said more than 50 years ago that grace had
become cheapened. I wonder what he would say today? I'm all for
grace, but I'm horrified at the cost by which it came. I can't for
the life of me understand how we can so often claim to have
received it and yet bear no resemblance in character to the one who
gave it. God's Word through Samuel is a harsh one. Yet it is one
that I believe we must include in our triumphant song of grace. You
see, true grace changes us. It will make us gracious and more like
the Grace-giver himself. If not, what we call grace is impotent,
powerless, and false. Paul called this a form of religion that
denied God's true power in us (2 Timothy 3:5). Let's return
obedience back to the pantheon of virtues and rescue it from the
attic of our religious past.
PRAYER:
Father, I know that you are disappointed with my sin and yet
your grace still flows and covers it. But Father, I NEVER want to
presume on that grace. You and I know the deepest struggles of my
character and the things I only want to "kinda" give up. Please
work your perfection in me through the Holy Spirit, conforming me
to be more and more to be like my Savior Jesus, in whose name I
pray. Amen.
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