God’s not looking for us to “clean ourselves up” before we respond to Him. Grace finds us and welcomes us each and every day right where we are. So, the first way we recognize and experience God’s grace is receiving it by faith, which is like a movement of our heart toward God, whose arms are open wide to us no matter what we’ve done or how low our lives have descended. We didn’t even know we needed it, but once that grace was initially received through faith, then our eyes were opened. Jesus did this for us even though we didn’t ask for it or even desire it. The amazing thing about grace is that the perfect Son of God (who is also God – confusing, I know) not only revealed the heart of the Father to us, but He died so that our sins would be forgiven and our relationship with the Father would be put back together. It begins with Jesus, God in human form coming to earth to show us what the Father is really like.
In How Big is God’s Grace, I attempted to lay out the expansive and loving nature of His grace. Whether you’ve been a Christian for a long time, a little while, or you are just curious about all this Jesus stuff, it’s easy to miss God’s grace showing up in our lives.
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