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Your Grace is Enough

On May 2nd, I blogged a definition of grace that we recently looked at in my small group, it went like this:

If your friend punches you in the face and you decide not to
retaliate...that's MERCY.

If your friend punches you in the face and you
decide not to retaliate and you tell him that it won't affect your
friendship...that's FORGIVENESS.

If your friend punches you in the face
and you decide not to retailiate and you tell him that it won't affect your
friendship AND you buy him an ice cream cone...that's GRACE.

So this was the definition in my mind at Church tonight when we sang, "Your Grace is Enough"...only, not too far into the chorus, it struck me that the word "enough" wasn't ENOUGH to express what God's grace is. It's MORE than we deserve, it's MORE than a simple pardon, it's MORE than we can possibly fathom, and it certainly IS MORE than ENOUGH!