Dear Friends
We Christians have always struggled with grace. It’s far easier for us to accept the reality that a holy God hates our sin than it is for us to really believe that he can use flawed instruments to fulfill his perfect design. For some reason, we’re reluctant to believe he loves us, forgives us, and truly wants what’s best for us even when we sin.
It’s amazing how often I meet people who, once I get to know them, seem to believe that God isn’t really on their side, that God is actually against them. They doubt that God really has good things in mind for them. Practically speaking they believe they still have to earn his favor.
The Bible however goes to great lengths to teach a completely different truth. Whether from the experience of individuals we know or biblical characters, we are all confronted with that tension between the pursuit of holiness and our humanity. We struggle and often we fail. But we are not alone.
Further nothing we say or think or do surprises God, nor does it alter his love for or commitment to us. And rather than precluding our ability to be used by God, our flaws sometimes seem almost to be requirements for great service. Except for Jesus Christ, God has always used flawed instruments. Always.
God calls us to holiness and expects us to mature in it. But he recognises the stuff of which we are made, he did the making after all. He gives us the freedom to be human and he usually chooses to display his power throught our weakness not our strength.
Solomzi