Grace?

Grace?

What is grace? What does it mean?
Is grace just understood but not to be seen?

Is grace a fancy word we learned in Sunday school?
Something we use in prayer to make us sound cool?

Is grace giving-up that parking spot at the mall?
Is grace not poking fun of that kid in the hall?

Is grace helping someone you don’t even know?
Is grace forgiving without a big show?

Is grace laying down your life for a brother?
Is grace forgiving the sins of another?

Is grace being nice to someone you don’t like
When you would rather tell them to go take a hike?

God has shown me grace through his love
Its in my heart not way above

Salvation is a gift not something we’ve won
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we’ve done (1)

God pours out his kindness on us like a flood
Our freedom was bought with his sons blood (2)

We must obey God we belong to him
Don’t slip back to your old ways of sin (3)

Now we must be holy in all that we do
Because God is holy and he chose you (4)

God’s grace to me is a brand new day
I can do it! Jesus has shown me the way

Grace shouldn’t just be something we understand
Grace should be a picture of every God’s MAN

(1) “He is so rich in his kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son” Ephesians 1:7
(2) “Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done” Ephesians 2:9
(3)”Obey God because you are his children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of doing evil.” 1 Peter 1:14
(4) “But now you must be Holy in everything you do, just as God -who chose you to be his children -is Holy”

1 Peter 1:15
Spring 2006 -bryan rotman