So yesterday I was watching my daily 20 minutes of Good Morning, America while I ate breakfast, and Charlie Gibson introduced a segment called "Amazing Grace." His description about it was this: "Finding grace and making it work for you." I didn't get to see the actual segment because this was just a teaser, but I would have watched it if I could have because I didn't realize that grace was like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow...once you found it, you could invest it in the stock market! Isn't the point of grace that it's unexpected and that you're just showered with it? And how do you make it work for you? (I keep picturing grace coming by to clean my kitchen or do yard work or maybe give me a little massage.)
Merriam-Webster says that one definition of grace is "unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification." Somehow I don't think God had making his divine assistance "work for you" in mind when he decided to shed that assistance upon you. And how does making it work for you help you towards sanctification??? I don't want my moments of grace to look like a lottery ticket or some commercialized retirement fund. I want my moments of grace to be a communion with God, a moment of revelation, a moment of regeneration and sanctification.
It just seems a little "me, me, me" in a world that needs a little less of that.
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