Monday, January 11, 2010

...a different story.

Once your life has been touched by grace it changes things.

No longer is life lived in the realm of “earned” or “deserved” but rather each step is taken now within new terms like “free” and “privilege”. No longer focusing on what “YOU have to do” but rather on what “HAS BEEN DONE FOR you” to afford you such a place of honor makes you want to start living different. Once you’ve seen how great a price was paid on Your behalf enabling you to live so free, it causes you to want to walk even more in that freedom.
Even church life becomes a different experience. No longer is it about a ritualistic attendance once a week in an attempt to try and earn back favor you lost in the six days prior, but rather it’s about growing relationships with others who are walking in this “new found freedom”. It’s about learning more of how great and wide and deep the extents of this “new found freedom” are, that you might live it to the fullest.


Simply said, it’s no longer about tight constraints and uptight rules, you are free; and your life, church-life, life in general become entirely a different story.