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| I've been thinking about how to know where to find wisdom. Clearly, it has little to do with age, but what criteria might you use to know who to seek counsel from?
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| What is up with grace? I haven’t ever had much to extend to others... until recently. And it’s not like I woke up one day and decided, in the course of an uneventful morning, to develop a more gracious attitude toward other people. But along the way I have met Him. And it seems that my connection with Him is resulting in my extending more grace to others without my even really thinking about it.
Now religions appear to have a very difficult time with grace. When grace is extended and taken to it’s natural and logical end within religion, what do they end up with? Suddenly, the posted rules can be arbitrarily set aside because someone wants to extend grace? To them, this must border on universalism.
But when the context of grace is a relationship, especially a relationship with Him, the difficulties disappear. Grace actually begins to make a lot more sense. In fact, very much like trust/faith, does grace have any usefulness as a word apart from relationships?
What do you think? How does a life of grace develop in us? | | |
| Some have suggested that faith and trust are essentially the same. I have had good conversations regarding possible differences, but I still have not found any that substantially affect the similarities. The only differences I have been able to identify is how we structure the grammar of english around these words. Beyond this, both seem to be useful describing events and feelings past, present and future.
I wrote before (see my post on January 2, 2006) that trust is something that develops naturally from a good relationship. Is faith really any different? Faith made by choice without any previous experience with that person is truly blind and would appear to have little or no connection with trust. I can no longer abide by the long-standing religious concept of asking someone to “put their faith in Christ.” I must have a relationship with Him and be able to point them to Him. Faith/trust then grows with the relationship.
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