I am a big believer in the power of grace.
Someone once asked me, what was the hardest thing to believe about God. My reply was God’s grace.
It’s relatively easy for me to accept God’s holiness, righteousness, creative ability, right to judge the world, His eternal nature as well as being all powerful and everywhere present.
The reason that the grace is the hardest bit for me, is because what it means about what God thinks about me and how I should then think about other people.
Grace is not about God letting me off. It is about God’s energy towards me that means He makes me right and there’s nothing I can do to earn that or in anyway repay Him for it. That force, that energy covers my failings, and continues to equip me to live right, comfort and console me in where I am and stir me to move forward.
Why it’s so hard is because of how I’ve seen myself, and a faulty view I had of God due to a number of upbringing issues. I’m still in the process of having that view renewed by constant insight into God is and how amazing His grace is for me and those who want to follow Him.
It’s hard also because it means I have to relate with people in a similar way as God relates to me. Again that’s not about smiling at stupidity or having a weak and pathetic approach to people’s wrongs with much wringing of the hands. It does however call for compassion and mercy where others seek condemnation. That’s difficult to exercise when you’ve been hurt or it’s a very touching issue to you.
Thankfully that’s why having Jesus in my life helps me to deal with this challenging but central aspect of who He is.
That’s why it might be the hardest thing to accept, but it’s also the most wonderful.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
Life With CD 
Very interesting. Many people find the holiness or wrath of God to be difficult to deal with (the old “I could never believe in a God that ) but what makes God so amazing is that He would bother with someone like me and do for me what I never could and never would do for myself. Amazing grace indeed.
Thanks for leaving this comment, King Arthur. I am sometimes bemused by people’s “I could never believe in a God like that” attitude to elements of God’s wrath, judgement and holiness. Those elements are not easy to swallow or enjoyable to contemplate, but the God I was introduced to was meant to be powerful and righteous – and the world I live in at times isn’t. It’s a no brainer for me.
His grace, however. That still amazes me. I look at this selfsame world, then look at the state of my heart at times, and think that it is the character of God to state that these have been dealt with in Jesus Christ and now I have a right to be called His son. Wow.
Agreed! 🙂