If you're looking at the title of the post and the picture and wondering how the two mesh, well, they don't. Because that picture is the opposite of the feeling of grace. However, if someone were to come and lift the elephant-sized weight off your back, that would fit the title very nicely, wouldn't it? Especially if they did so without you asking or needing to do anything in return. Grace is a powerful concept. To be shown grace, to be given what you can never deserve or pay back or earn, it's deep. And the other day, I got to experience it in a new way. Sure, we all know we've received forgiveness of sins and salvation by grace. The Bible literally says there was nothing we could do that could earn our salvation. The only way to get to heaven is because of God's grace.
But here on earth, sometimes it's easy to forget. To forget not only that ought to be remembering that grace all the time and shouting our praises and thanks to the skies. But also to remember how heavy the weight would be if we didn't have that grace. Lately, several bills have come due. They were semi-expected, but they were also much higher than what had been quoted to me. And I was starting to panic. Because we weren't going to have the money to pay those bills. I'd been praying. I knew God could and would take care of us somehow, but I had no idea how it was going to happen. And the bills kept coming. On the phone with the accounting person, I was explaining the situation. That we'd been quoted one thing, but insurance wasn't covering as much or the clinic had charged more than expected or something, because the bills were SO MUCH higher than what we'd been told. And she started digging in further, too. We hung up, and I expected she might be able to knock a couple hundred or maybe even a thousand off of them for me one way or another. You guys. Seriously, this is still amazing to me, because I never expected it. She called me back less than an hour later and told me almost all of it had been taken care of. The elephant was lifted off my back, just like that. And I have been sending up praises ever since. And it got me to thinking. If I'm so grateful for this bill being paid, how ungrateful I must seem about the bill of my sin being paid, too. Because I don't thank God for it nearly as much or as profusely. Food for thought, isn't it? Because we owe Him thanks for all that and more. Have you ever been shown grace? How do you remember to show the thankfulness due?
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