Simple Ways for Protecting Against Extremes

3 ideas spring to mind as I suspect about living alongside the hazards of grace and putting all this into balanced living.

First, guard against extremes if you need to enjoy the freedom grace provides. Try your absolute best to keep balanced, then like it. Try this first : Simply give yourself authorization to be free. But nor should you spend a little time looking over your shoulder troubling about those that “spy out your liberty,” and thinking about what they’ll think and say.

2nd , treat grace as an unjustified privilege instead of an exclusive right. It’s all in one’s angle, isn’t it? It has zip to do with financial standing or where you reside or what garments you like or which vehicle you drive. 3rd , remember that while grace came to you openly, it cost the Savior His life. It may appear free, but it was very expensive when He bought it for us. And who would not wish to be free, since we’ve been acquired from the terrors of bondage? Grace is God’s universal good news of deliverance.

The crisis is that some continue to live lives in a deathlike bog because they’ve been so turned off by a message that is completely full of limitations, demands, negativism, and legalism. You will have been one of those held in bondage, victimised by a system which has robbed your joy and snuffed out your hope. And if you come into this camp of grace underneath the cross, you may never need to be in that nasty bog again.