by Crescentia Morais

Created on: May 30, 2010

RESURRECTION DAY 2010, DATED.

God’s love for us is called amazing because it is so.

It is amazing because it is vast: vaster than the spreading ocean, vaster than the   stretched-out sky, vaster than the imagination or yearning of puny man.

Grace is kindness, mercy, blessing. When God chooses to overlook our injustice towards Him and our ingratitude, and treats us as if we did not deserve punishment, that is grace: kindness, mercy, blessing.

Grace is amazing because it puts us back in harmony with God. It returns peace to our soul. It restores sanity to our mind. It reinstates us in His eyes.

To know grace and love, we need to know what God offers. To know that God is offering something, we need to know that God Is. To know that God Is, we need to believe in God.

Do you believe in God?

To believe in God, one has to accept certain realities: holiness; fallenness; sin; punishment; confession and contrition; redemption; salvation; judgement; a new order. A word like ‘fallenness’ may seem primitive; ‘punishment’ may seem harsh; ‘a new order’ may seem delusional. Still, to believe in God, one has to accept certain realities. So, do you believe in God?

I believe in God.

I believe because I was born to parents who believed in God. There was no other reality; I was brought up to believe that God Is.

Today, I know God in a different way from that I was taught to follow as a child. Today, I believe because I believe the story of salvation.

Firstly, it makes sense to me that if a God created the universe and put man in it, that He would take personal responsibility when something went wrong, even if He were not at fault. A God would be that big-hearted, that mindful, that powerful.

Secondly, salvation is the story of my life. God has saved me from my cluelessness. My earliest journey, it appears now, was to seek meaning. The journey continues: nothing has been completely revealed, nothing is completely understood. But by the things that have happened and the way they have happened I am aware that the hand of God has been shaping meaning for me.

Still, I sometimes ask: what if I had not been born into a family that knew God? What if I had not been taught about God and His ways, and not trained in His requirements? Given my stubbornness, my insistence on going my way at my pace in my time, would I know my Creator as I know Him today? Would Jesus Christ have been my Hero as He is today?

…This is what I have been able to discover, by my life and that of others: the grace of God finds you when you want to be found. It is an amazing thing, the grace of God. It can create something out of nothing; it can bring you back to your beginning in order that you may end well.

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