The Free Gift (3/30/06)

I mentioned the cheap grace being the cancer of the church and got the dumb-ass retort of this “ME” generation to prove it. “It’s not cheap it’s free.” I bring this up not as a church lesson but rather as a human lesson applicable to this blog in that “ME” is the blindfold robbing you of wisdom necessary to obtain victory. The me generation measures every cost and event from themselves outward. There is never any consideration of others. Grace is a good example here to display their ignorance. Grace is defined as unmerited favor but that is not synonymous with free. “FREE” is merely the perspective of the benefactor. Christ sold His entire estate to pay the price to make the offer of Grace. It was not free to the giver. His price was high! Secondly it was unmerited but not unconditional for it was attached to faith which is not free. Faith is an action of trusting which is not synonymous with the noun to believe. Actions require the will which is engaged after mental wrangling. Mental wrangling is not free and very much measures the cost of actions taken. Faith in Christ always demands courage which at the very least will cost you your fears and doubts. “By grace through faith” binds these two gifts together. The me perspective never contemplates the cost, thoughts, or intent of another party. You “ME” idiots always rant about your sorry life which is the only truth you can muster. Truth arrives from the consideration of others. You can’t fathom my good will intent because I have to go through a jaded path of peril to deliver it. You don’t like it because it requires a little trust. It may not be fee which is what you are used to and all you think you’re worth. Unlike you I am aware of the suffering of others and always seek the best and fastest remedy not putting my pain above all as a self-centered adolescent. But let’s not talk about me for you are so important.