graciousness of grace

Wednesday June 16th, Galatians 2: 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" We applaud the, well, graciousness of grace, but in the end we all try to it set aside. To be saved by grace is to not be in control. To be saved by grace is to accept that everyone else on this planet can be, and most likely is, also saved by grace. To be saved by grace means that any justification for killing, rising to the top on the back of others, claiming other’s religious expressions to be wrong while yours is right, seeing a me when we should be seeing a we, are all ways of saying that some people are created in God’s image and some are not. It is a way of saying we are in charge and therefore God is not. To be saved by grace is to constantly look inward and see the ways we try to bottleneck that calling of letting the grace of God in us flow out to others. Being saved by grace means that even knowing that in spite of all our subtle attempts to bottleneck that grace, even we are saved by grace. To be saved by grace means knowing that we have been, are and always will be loved by the creator to who created all that is and pronounced it good, just like that person down the street or around the world we may happen to at the moment call enemy.