Free Stuff

I am always amazed what lengths people will go through to get something for free. They will push and shove, stand in line, you name it they will do it for something free. In short they will make fools of themselves just to get something for nothing. I know you’ve seen it and if you’re honest with yourself you know you’ve done it. However there is one free thing that is really hard for many to accept and that’s grace. When a person stands in line for a freebie they have already made a choice to do so. With grace there is no choice, and not having a choice is what really bothers people. It takes mankind out of the equation and as humans that’s extremely hard to do, to give up power, control, or the ability to choose. Having to give up these things is offending to most people and no one will do it on their own.  It takes the hand of God for anyone to receive the handout of grace even then it’s still hard for even the Christian to turn everything over because we still like to think we have a choice. If God chooses something for us the only choice we have is to trust Him.

Romans 5:16
And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins.