Each person born into the world has a unique mission to fulfill.Discover your mission and seek grace to fulfill this purpose.
I contend that those who Agape can only administer mercy and grace."~R. Alan Woods [2012]
YOUR PROGRESS IS THE ACTUAL PROGRESS OF HUMANITY. YOUR PROGRESS IS NOT YOURS ALONE, IT ADDS GRACE IN ENTIRE HUMANITY'S CREDIT.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Your gravity, your grace have turned a tideIn me, no lunar power can reverse;But in your narcoleptic eyes I spiedA sightlessness tonight: or something worse,A disregard that made me feel unmanned.Meanwhile, insomniac, I catch my breathTo think I saw my future traced in sandOne afternoon "as still, as carved, as death,”And pray for an oblivion so deepIt ends in transformation. Only dawnCan save me, flood this haunted house of sleepWith light, and drown the thoughts that nightly warn:Another lifetime is the least you’ll need, to traceThe guarded secrets of her gravity, her grace.
“W.R. Grace is pursuing a strategy of holding its victims hostage. They are suffering while it is operating with considerable success in Chapter 11. Presumably they feel they can hold on forever in Chapter 11. Grace seems to be pursuing a strategy of forcing its victims to capitulate so its stockholders can hold on to their interest.”
Each of us ought to be so happy that Jesus found us and saved us, that we are running to find the next person who needs to be introduced to Him. That's what church is, a community of rescued people celebrating grace, eager to spread the good news of grace and bring other people to the party.
Sin acts as if God's original plan was for us to bootstrap ourselves into holiness by way of the law and then, when this didn't quite pan out, God offered his grace--but only the bare minimum--to make good the difference. This is exactly backwards. God's boundless grace comes first and sin is what follows.
Some theologians argue that one kind of grace is better than another, and that some people think they're experiencing “divine” grace when it's actually just “common.”To me, that's like bickering about what color God's eyes are. (They're hazel, in case you were wondering.)
Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.