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How Grace Comes
Grace, by its very definition, seeks us out and comes to us, and it brings with it the opportunity for us to accept it and respond.
By 96five Contributors Tuesday 6 Apr 2021
By: Dr Eliezer Gonzalez
The world really doesn’t have a definition for grace other than “smoothness and eloquence of movement.”
Here is a beautiful Christian definition and description of grace:
Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return… Grace is being loved when you are unlovable…. Grace is a love that has nothing to do with you, the beloved. It has everything and only to do with the lover. Grace is irrational in the sense that it has nothing to do with weights and measures. It has nothing to do with my intrinsic qualities… It reflects a decision on the part of the giver, the one who loves, in relation to the receiver, the one who is loved, that negates any qualifications the receiver may personally hold…. Grace is one-way love…