Devotions

FREE IS THE RAREST OF THINGS When you stop to think about it, something that is truly, completely, 100% free is extremely rare. When's the last time you used a coupon because you thought you were getting something free, but there were all these crazy strings attached? You get a free shirt if you spend $50 on jeans. You must get this free shirt between these certain dates, and if not, no free shirt. You can get a free drink-- if you buy a meal. You can get a free copy of a magazine-- but only if you subscribe for a certain amount of time. You get a free smart phone-- but only if you buy the expensive data plan to go with it. When is there ever anything that is seriously free? Meaning you have to do absolutely nothing to receive it-- spend no money whatsoever. It's pretty rare, right? To find something with no strings attached? Not only are free things rare-- but when are rare things ever free? When do you walk into a comic book store to find a limited edition of some r

HOW COULD I NOT GIVE IT AWAY SO FREELY? God's grace is a complete and utter mystery to me. I don't understand much of it at all. I dont' understand why He would ever love sinner like us. I don't understand why we literally don't have to do ANYTHING to deserve His grace but believe in His Son. It is unheard of. It's insane. It's unbelievably simple, yet I get so mislead to the point where I actually think that I need to deserve His grace, that I can somehow be "good enough," to earn it. How stupid of me. God's grace has a few facts that we can understand, and I'm going to lay them out, here on this web page. The facts of grace. Fact Number One: Grace is undeserving. That means that we can never be good enough, never do any amount of good deeds in order to earn His grace, not ever. We simply have to believe in Him. We don't have to go to church. We don't have to take communion. We don't have to give money to the church.