“There is no true gracefulness which
is not epitomized goodness.” -Samuel Butler
As a child I collected my town’s police profile trading cards,
150 of them in all. The police quickly
became celebrities amongst the town’s youth, and it was quite the spectacle to
see parents chasing down police in their cars to get them to autograph the cards
for their kids. Before the police cards,
many had seen the police only from a distance, as enforcers of justice. Now everyone got closer to the police
and built a relationship with them, seeing their caring and good side. Similarly, God didn’t want us to see
Him only from a distance, as the enforcer of the Law, but under grace He wants
us to see Him up close through Jesus, one who cares about us and who is
good.
But
God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still
sinners (Romans 5:8, NLT).
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