Grace Is(n't)

Grace is not a license. 
Unless it's a license to power up and live above the excuses that lock us into living an ordinary life. 

Grace is living the extraordinary life.

Living in the realm above the commonplace. 

The place where power catapults us into living beyond our human capabilities. 


Grace is loving like Jesus did. Grace is taking up our cross. Grace hung on a tree to conquer sin, not condone it. 

Grace is not making excuses when the inexcusable is happening before our eyes. 
Grace is not confusion. Grace is the clarity we need to live and love in high definition. 

Grace does not condemn, and it won't let us stay chained to the wall of the cave of condemnation. 

Grace will not allow us to stay trapped in our self-righteous prison of justification when the doors have been busted wide open. 

Grace does not accept mediocrity. 
Grace doesn't speak confusion. 
Grace will not translate into complacency. 

Grace is solid. 
And fluid. 
But it will never allow us to slide down a slippery slope. 
Grace is not greasy; it's gripping. 

Grace is strength in our weakness. 
Grace is dignity in our wretchedness. 
Grace is integrity. It's meekness. 
A choice. 

Grace is God's voice when we feel like we're drowning in a sea of (everyone else's) bad decision. 
Grace does not excuse our abuser and it does not grant us deniability in abusing others. 

To abuse grace is to violate the One who extended His arms on a cross to give it. 

Grace is a way out. A way up. A way through. 

But NEVER a way back down. 

Grace will never lead us backward unless back is where we left ourselves. 

Grace always finds us right in the middle of where we are. 
We are saved by it. 
We are loved by it. 
We are led by it. 

Grace bled out power and authority and peace on a cross. 

We live in it because of it.