God absorbed

Tuesday June 15th, Galatians 2: 15 "We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' 16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified. The natural tendency for humanity is to move away from grace and back into the law. It is a more comfortable state for us because we get the illusionary feeling we are in charge. It manifest itself in several ways, here are a few. We want to be saved by grace, but then we see others and we are not so sure about them, we close our eyes to the oxymoron of not being sure they deserve grace. Or we want to be saved by grace, and we know we are because after all it is fairly easy, we close our eyes to the oxymoron of believing that after all we are not that bad as far as sinners go. Or we want to be saved by grace, but we are soooooo bad that there is no way God could do that and we close our eyes to the oxymoron of our real belief that if we didn’t have this bad thing we were sooo guilty feeling about then we would lose our identity, because after all, it is all about us, and we are in charge not God. All these oxymoronic manifestations are self-absorbed obsessions. Grace is being God absorbed and allowing yourself to move forward after forgiveness.