Grace...

I just got off the phone with a good friend from Colorado. He's a pastor who recently went through a pretty difficult transition. Everytime I get a chance to talk with Steve, I am reminded of his story. Just a few years ago, he and his family made the difficult decision to change denominations. Without going into a lot of detail, suffice it to say that the decision was all about grace. I guess his story impacts me so much because I have the tendency to NOT be a person of grace. In fact, too many times in my life, I have already passed judgment, delivered the verdict, and pronounced the sentence before ever hearing the entire case. I want to be a person of grace. Jesus was certainly a man of grace. If not for grace, where would I be? Certainly not here, not enjoying a relationship with God and trying to walk with Him. Over and over again, the New Testament writers expressed their desire that their readers would experience the grace of God in their lives. Like those early disciples, I pray that we could truly know the grace of God and somehow help each other become people of grace.