Amazing Grace, oh, how SWEET the sound,
When God’s Grace abounds to me.
But when to my foes, His Grace abounds,
It’s not amazing to me!
Does that pretty much summarize how you feel about The Lord’s amazing Grace? If so, don’t feel bad. It’s in our re-programmed DNA. You see, Adam and Eve were created perfectly to understand and appreciate The Lord’s Grace, and to exercise their FREE WILL about it. So were satan and every holy angel who rebelled against The Lord, and became devils and demons on Earth. Using the ‘free will avenue’, they tempted Eve, who nudged Adam to join their rebellion. You know ‘the rest of that story’— sin corrupted both the physical and spiritual nature of Adam and Eve—and all their seed, including us
That’s why the above stanza rhymes so clearly to us. 1
The Lord foreknew it all. He had pre-planned a structured opportunity for anyone who would be spiritually wise enough to perceive, and embrace it. All others would become satan’s eternal captives in a pre-determined, awful punishment. The Lord, HIMSELF, would become our escape route, dying a cruel physical and spiritual death on our behalf, one that, through Grace, would conditionally pardon and absolve us of our sin infractions. His condition was simply for us to spend the rest of our lives learning to understand, and increasingly apply what we would learn about Him, His ways, and His eternal plans for all of humanity. Thus, He inspired and orchestrated, then preserved and promoted pivotal ‘teaching lessons’ in ancient history! It’s called The Holy Bible, and no other book has or will ever come close to how it can utterly transform a human life for out eternal benefit. NONE! That’s the reason satan’s crew have worked incessantly, with great success, to denigrate The Lord’s book in the hearts and minds of the overwhelming majority of mankind. 2
The Lord LOVES free will to the point that He allows us the agency—i.e., the informed ability to decide and influence—both the nature and place of our personal, eternal destination. He RESPECTS human agency so absolutely, that He permits us to ignore the ‘teaching lessons’ He painstakingly designed and preserved to save us. Thus, Grace becomes His ultimate provider of space—space for us to choose whether to learn, or to walk away.
Whether we choose—or refuse—to become informed about our options is, at its core is…
His GRACE@Work!!!
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1 Our free will is not just about making choices. It is the spiritual avenue through which both our fall from The Lord’s Grace occurred, and our redemption back to it will, or will not occur.
2 Grace frames The Holy Bible, not as a collection of myths or irrelevant, ancient stories, but as Heaven’s strategic manual for humanity to navigate a world thoroughly corrupted by the nature we all share, by default.
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