from nursery school onward we are taught to succeed in the world of ungrace. the early bird gets the worm. no pain, no gain. there is no such thing as a free lunch. demand your rights. get what you pay for. i know these rules well because i live in them. i work for what i earn; i like to win; i insist on my rights. i want people to to get what they deserve - nothing more, nothing less.
yet if i care to listen, i hear a loud whisper from the gospel that i did not get what i deserved. i deserve punishment and got forgiveness. i deserve wrath and got love. i deserved debtor's prison and got instead a clean credit history. i deserved stern lectures and crawl-on-your-knees repentance; i got a banquet- spread for me...
forgiveness is not the kind of thing you count on an abacus.
God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
"What's so amazing about Grace" by Philip Yancey.
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YO! Rendy here :) I think royston will take awhile to get us linked via MSN? LOL, give me your MSN somehow ok? :)
hoho! heys rendy! my msn is flywithme2424@hotmail.com
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