Living A Life Of Grace

Grace,

like the song.

Isn't it amazing?

It chose to understand

the need of the human race.

It didn't wait until 

we were deserving.

It was freely given.

And it acted in selfless love.

It layed down it's life

for the sake of another

without waiting to be asked

or pleaded with.

It's actions covered

a multitude of sins

and drew close for sweet

relationship.

Had it not been for this sweet grace,

God would have looked

like so many we see today

full of religion.

These demand that we sign

a list of rules and agreements

before it even knows who we are 

or have cared to draw close.

And if you break one 

of those rules, 

you are toast

and completely done.

Eyes darkened 

and deceitful lies from

the very beginning

and yet it points at you

and cries out "guilty!"

It was built on rule

and bound by rule.

Rule has no grace

and no light by which to see

like a prison without windows.

It hates the very light

and love and friendship

that freedom rings.

It hates the wide open spaces

and comradery.

It finds the ones who live

in similar prisons of darkness

and there it mutters

and whispers together,

all stuck in the same graceless society.

You ones saved by Grace through faith,

I implore you to run far far away.

Don't ever fear their threats

and their dark mutterings.

Keep yourself in the love of God.

To know Him is to have found

amazing Grace

and to know Him

is to know how to share 

that sweetness with others.

Seriously graceless religion?

Do you truly believe 

that you can control people

by being brittle and cold?

Do you think that the thing

they've not had modeled,

they are going to be able 

to go out and show others?

People will share 

what they've been shown.

Grace shown will beget grace.

Mercy shown will beget mercy.

Humility in the face of your rule

being broken and the blessing 

of forgiveness and understanding

will beget forgiveness 

and understanding.

Don't you see?