A thought by Andy Stanley, (2010-10-19) from his
book, The Grace of God (Kindle
Location 116). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
I went home and started getting ready to move some stuff
over to our storage unit and I carried it down to the car, put it into the car,
ready to run up and get some more stuff and then realized that I had locked my
keys in the car to the car and to our apartment. Now I was looking for God’s graciousness on
my part to help me work it all out. I wasn’t
gracious to the man but I wanted God to be gracious about the mistake I had
made and help me get my keys back.
I was sitting in my spot at Starbucks this morning with my
table all organized and a man came up and asked if he could sit in the other
chair. There was no other place to sit
so I begrudgingly said, “yes” so he sat down and started using his half of the
table. Now that kind of griped me so I wasn’t
really very friendly or I should say very gracious to him. He had invaded my space without me asking him
to.
I didn’t respond much better the whole time he was
there. In other words, i blew it in
being gracious to him. My pride and my
feeling of being inconvenienced got in the way of my being gracious.
Now after a long ordeal I got my keys and finally moved the
stuff over to the storage unit and then decided to sit down and write this
blog. I was having some real problems
and then I was pulled to this thought and it then hit me how ungracious I was
earlier in the day but of how God was so gracious to me. You see, grace is not earned. In no way did I deserve God’s help in my situation
when I had treated someone whom He loves and whom He had put in my path the way
I did.
When I realized what I had done and felt the remorse and
guilt of it I stopped and asked God’s forgiveness and hoped that I would get
another chance so that I could rectify my rudeness with the man.
In no way did I deserve His grace but He gave it to me.
So how has your day gone?
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