Outrageous Grace

I have a little daily calendar that displays a passage from the Message. (Have I told you that I am completely addicted to the Message? I'm even using it this year for my "read through the Bible in a year" readings.) Almost without fail, this little calendar, that I seriously got at a yard sale for $.25, is like a cup of cold water to me. Today's verse:

"Sin didn't, and doesn't, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that's the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life - a life that goes on and on and on, world without end" Romans 5: 20-21

Stunning isn't it?

Reminds me of a song written by a crazy Brit we recently had at our church, Godfrey Birtill:

Verse 1
There’s a lot of pain but a lot more healing
There’s a lot of trouble but a lot more peace
There’s a lot of hate but a lot more loving
There’s a lot of sin but a lot more grace

Chorus
Oh outrageous grace oh outrageous grace
Love unfurled by heaven’s hand
Oh outrageous grace oh outrageous grace
Through my Jesus I can stand

Verse 2
There’s a lot of fear but a lot more freedom
There’s a lot of darkness but a lot more light
There’s a lot of cloud but a lot more vision
There’s a lot of perishing but a lot more life

Bridge
There’s an enemy
That seeks to kill what it can’t control
It twists and turns
Making mountains out of molehills
But I will call on my Lord
Who is worthy of praise
I run to Him and I am saved


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Anyone in need of some grace today?