Saving Grace

I think one can never call one’s self a Christian if that person has never experienced God’s saving grace. A Christian’s turning point is when he realizes that God, through all his imperfections, loved him and decided to extend to him the gift of salvation that he will NEVER deserve. And with this realization, God ultimately changes how we lead our lives. If previously we see our principles as absolute, logical and correct, now we only see God and His infinite goodness producing in us a resolve to live our lives in thanksgiving to Him. THIS is how we start to be a dispenser of grace.

To be honest, being a Christian is not a walk in the park. It is not easy to conquer evil by doing good (Rom. 12:21b). How can we when all we can see from others is how they took advantage of us, how they look down upon us, how they disrespect us, etc. A part of us will always want to seek the justice we think we deserve that we end up serving it ourselves. But, see, we were not called to judge, we were called to extend grace.

Grace is understanding (and acting on that understanding) that everyone has their good side no matter how worse their committed sins are. It is realizing that other people’s action for a moment does not define who they really are and thus, gives us no right to nullify their lives. Grace is seeing that you and them (no matter how good you think of yourself and how bad others actually are) is one and the same: all supposedly hopeless but all redeemed.

I do not claim to be an expert of grace. If anything, I have only begun to see the tip of it. And I desire to know more of it because it is the starting point of my life in Christ: God's saving grace.