Subject: What do we have as a conseqence of goda |
Bible Note: Hi, Brothers Steve and Jeff :: When thinking about God's incomparable grace and trying to describe it, amazing is an understatement, yes. It is a word that doesn't carry quite the oomph that it did back when the hymn "Amazing Grace" was written, the erosion accounted for partly because of overuse and misuse. To illustrate: Now and then I tune in on one of these drawn-out commericals -- called infomercials, I believe -- on cable TV. Just recently I viewed one of these on which the salesman was describing the glorious features of a food chopper of some sort. His constant claim was, "You'll be amazed." Now I can't possibly imagine myself being amazed by a plastic whopper-dopper chopper. And it wasn't just the chopper that was supposed to be amazing. The low price was also supposed to be amazing as well. So just how is the viewer supposed to think about this concept of amazing? Is he amazed by the grace of God on the one hand and equally amazed by the food chopper on the other? I cringe at the abuse that the English language has suffered in the last half century or so. ..... But I believe that the grace of God is truly amazing, in the best and highest sense of the word. Yet the word 'amazing,' like other words in our language, falls dismally short of the mark when it is applied to the mighty God and His attributes. Upon consulting my copy of Roget's Thesaurus, I found some 50 synonyms for 'amazing,' but found none that was truly adequate to describe or define the grace of God. Yet I am convinced that the regenerate believer knows in his heart what it is and what it has done in his life, even though he may fall short, as I do, of being able fully to express it adequately in words. I believe the grace of God is in a real sense akin to the "peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (cf Philippians 4:7). --Hank |
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