A Picture of Grace from God's Point of View

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

The lad didn't have to earn my forgiveness. He didn't have to apologize, make a public confession, jump through some hoops, go through a ceremony to prove he was really sorry, and he doesn't have to live in fear that one day the broken ruler will come back up as an issue with me and he'll have to pay for his transgression. He is free of the debt owed to me forever.

If it's possible for a mere man to exercise grace to another human being---then the One who is Love has imminently more to offer us.

I know many want to believe in an angry God. The authoritarian Father who whips off his belt routinely and beats the kids thoroughly. Or the Country Club God who is only merciful to the deserving elite who are the chosen few. But the Bible says that God pities us as father pities his children. He is slow to anger, plenteous in mercy.

I need his every day grace.

It is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness.

Angry God and Country Club God, but let's add Enabler God.

The boy didn't have to apologize and you believe that's a good thing? Worthy of virtue and a trait to make him an honorable man? Bro, maybe you are just so far into this "Nicer Than Jesus" doctrine to tell which end is up? But Jesus taught repentance. The Israelites had to repent to go back into the land. 2nd Chronicles 7:14 is all about repentance! You quoted it yourself not too long ago? Bro, what you are teaching isn't God's grace, but some pyschobabble from a young male Hillary Clinton supporter.