Today is Thursday, July 18th, 2019; Karen's Korner #4079


Something emailed to Max Lucado's weekday readers and written by him:


LET GRACE HAPPEN


"I became a Christian about the same time I became a Boy Scout, and I made the assumption that God grades like the Boy Scouts do--on a merit system. Good scouts move up. Good people go to heaven.

"So I worked toward the day when God, amid falling confetti and dancing cherubim, would drape my bad-laden sash across my chest and welcome me into his eternal kingdom where I would humbly display my badges for eternity. But some thorny questions surfaced. How many badges does He require? How good is good?

"Ephesian 2:8 say, 'For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.' Unearned. A gift. Our merits merit nothing. So, let grace happen. Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it!!


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