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Amazed by Grace

Too often I am numb to the extraordinary truth of Christianity. My whole life is inundated with theology, church, prayer, and the whole religion thing. I work for a church so everything I do, in some way or another, is about or at least related to faith. This means that I hear and read the language of grace, redemption, resurrection, and all the rest all the time.

I will admit that I sometimes just get used to it.

Grace no longer astounds me, its just a part of life. Redemption is something brought up twenty or thirty times a day. The Resurrection of Jesus, the center point of history and the fundamental fact of Christianity, is just a given fact. Prayer becomes mundane, worship rote, and reading the Bible something I have to do because I teach multiple Bible studies a week.

I get the feeling that I'm not alone in this. Many Christians at some point in their life get in a rut. The more you are around something the more accustomed to it you get, and sadly this holds true to the truth of the Gospel. What is a radical, world changing message of grace, hope, and love just becomes another message among others.

It really shouldn't be.

The solution, however, is simple. Keep going. Every time I've hit this feeling of going nowhere in my faith God has always gotten me going again. One of the great joys of grace is that we are not called to do it all alone. God is with us. God is helping us. God is empowering us. 

Think about how absolutely mind boggling that is. God loves you so much that he is with you all the time. He is constantly molding you into the image of Jesus. Our faith and growth are not entirely dependent upon how we feel. There will be times when we lose that fire or feel stuck. God is still with you and working. His grace is amazing, and we should remind ourselves just how incredible it is.

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