God’s grace!

It has a wildness about it. A white-water, rip-tide, turn-you-upside-downness about it. Grace comes after you!

Some years ago I underwent a heart procedure. I asked the surgeon, “You’re burning the interior of my heart, right?”

“Correct.”

“You intend to kill the misbehaving cells, yes?”

“That’s my plan.”

“As long as you’re in there, could you take your little blowtorch to some of my greed, selfishness, superiority, and guilt?”

He smiled, “Sorry, that’s out of my pay grade!”

But it’s not out of God’s!

Could you take your little blowtorch to some of my greed, selfishness, superiority, and guilt?
We’d be wrong to think these changes — blow torching away our greed, selfishness, superiority, guilt, and... — happen overnight. We’d be equally wrong to assume change never happens at all. It may be in fits and spurts, but it comes!

The old apostle said, “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people” (Titus 2:11). The floodgates are open, and the water’s out. You just never know when grace will seep in.

Could you use some?