Today I was reading "The cost of discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In his book he talked about how we have made grace cheap
We often times use grace as an excuse for sin saying that his grace will cover our faults
But real grace cost something
Martin Luther understood this grace
grace that cost everything
in order for him to understand this he had to live a life as a monk
totally seperated from the rest of the world
he figured out that Grace would cost everything but the REAL grace from god will also cover everything
We often times don't want this grace because in order to get it we have to die to ourselves
we have to turn our entire lives over to god
we have to surrender everything to get this grace
we have the mindset of wash away the sin but we never wash away the sinner
we live a life of compromise because we don't embrace his grace that cost everything
we are satisfied with the cheap grace because it's easy
we can still sin if we have this cheap grace
God is calling out to his sons and daughters saying come follow me!! but in order to do that we have to lay down everything down
we would rather live a life of compromise filled with worldly fun that surrender our entire lives to the king of kings and lord of lords
if we would surrender everything we could have the faith to step out on the water and walk toward our father
who's saying come to me
lets embrace this costly grace and lay down everything so that HE can wash away everything!!
Learning to LOVE
Living under HIS waterfalls
Ben,
In his book he talked about how we have made grace cheap
We often times use grace as an excuse for sin saying that his grace will cover our faults
But real grace cost something
Martin Luther understood this grace
grace that cost everything
in order for him to understand this he had to live a life as a monk
totally seperated from the rest of the world
he figured out that Grace would cost everything but the REAL grace from god will also cover everything
We often times don't want this grace because in order to get it we have to die to ourselves
we have to turn our entire lives over to god
we have to surrender everything to get this grace
we have the mindset of wash away the sin but we never wash away the sinner
we live a life of compromise because we don't embrace his grace that cost everything
we are satisfied with the cheap grace because it's easy
we can still sin if we have this cheap grace
God is calling out to his sons and daughters saying come follow me!! but in order to do that we have to lay down everything down
we would rather live a life of compromise filled with worldly fun that surrender our entire lives to the king of kings and lord of lords
if we would surrender everything we could have the faith to step out on the water and walk toward our father
who's saying come to me
lets embrace this costly grace and lay down everything so that HE can wash away everything!!
Learning to LOVE
Living under HIS waterfalls
Ben,
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