What if God had made the same half-hearted mediocre effort in providing the gift of salvation that many of us make in saying thanks for it?<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy to offer your whole beings as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God \u2013 this is your spiritual act of worship.\u201d \u2013 (Romans 12:1)<\/em><\/p>\n One of the dangerous but all too human by-products of the Age of Grace is the attitude among some Christians that \u201cI\u2019ll do what I can without inconveniencing myself too much and the Lord will understand and make up the difference.\u201d Some folks think a less-than-best effort on their part will be acceptable to God, Who forgives all things (including the indifference this attitude demonstrates). Others, more concerned about man\u2019s opinion than God\u2019s are afraid they\u2019ll be accused of being on a \u201cworks trip\u201d if they put forth their maximum capability.<\/p>\n True, we as humans could never have deserved the gift of salvation before the fact, and can never do enough to merit its benefits after the fact, that\u2019s why it\u2019s called a gift of grace. But does that justify our ambivalence to the incredible price our Lord paid to provide it without cost to us? Has God\u2019s Grace produced a \u201ctake-it-for-granted\u201d response from us? What if He had made the same half-hearted mediocre effort in providing the gift that many of us make in saying thanks for it?<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been involved in organized religion for decades and am amazed at how little some in the body of Christ do to express their gratitude to the One who has rescued them from the coming wrath (1 Thes. 1:9-10). They come to Him with a \u201cwhat have you done for me lately\u201d attitude, informing Him of their current worldly wants and needs and expecting results, but expend precious little effort in conveying their gratitude even for the things He did for them yesterday, let alone the priceless and eternal gift He provided 2000 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What if God had made the same half-hearted mediocre effort in providing the gift of salvation that many of us make in saying thanks for it? \u201cTherefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy to offer your whole beings as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God \u2013 this is your … Continue reading “24.z. Lazy Grace by Jack Kelly”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120156,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120153\/revisions\/120156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}