Category: Christian Faith and Inspiration

I’ve shied away from writing on the topic of grace for a long time. To be honest, the reason is that I’m not certain I even fully understand the concept of grace.

Some of the explanations I’ve heard sound incredibly simple. Too simple. So simple that they often seem to negate the concept of choosing or making an effort to live righteously.

I know, however, that is not the case because of Romans 6:1 clearly states:

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid! How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Other interpretations of grace are usually made under the umbrella of ‘God understands.’

“So, what is God’s grace. What exactly does it refer to”? I asked in exasperation,yet again.

In the past few months, the message of love; God’s Love; Agape; Ahavah; seems to be the…

John 12:1-8 reads:
“Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying…

A quote by the late Dr. Maya Angelou reads “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.”

Ever since I started applying that quote to how I deal with the people around me; specifically, people whose actions hurt, injure or anger me in some way, I found that I am more able to understand that the intent of the action is not always to hurt, injure, or anger. However, in those times that it is, notwithstanding, the understanding has become that a person, rather, a Christian, will only deliberately, hurt another Christian intentionally if they simply do not know of a better way to solve the issue that they may have with that person.

So, an interesting thing happened when I was in church on Sunday. I’d come before the throne of grace once, again. Crying. Begging God to remove the things…