We All Need Grace

 .......We All Need Grace

I'm reading again what we call "The Sermon on the Mount" (Matthew 5-7). It still mystifies me. It seems so unyielding and so unchangeable.  There is comfort, too, but the main message seems to be about our failures.

But these words from Philip Yancey in "The Jesus I Never Knew" have really helped:

     "Thunderously, unarguably, The Sermon on the Mount proves that  before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers,  adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters.

     We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God.

     Having fallen from the absolute ideal, we have nowhere to land  but in the safety net  of divine grace."

The "safety net of Divine Grace" --  that's where we must land --

"Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and 

grace my fear relieved".....

and that's the grace that 'will bring us home'!

The bad news  is that nothing can save us but God's grace, and the good news is that God has given us His grace!

I remember an old saying about Home: Home is where when you go there they have to take you in.

We stand before God clothed in Christs' righteousness....and so heaven will take us in! The Gatekeeper will recognize us!