Forever In His Grip

One of my students asked me this week about "Grace." He was wanting to know the answer to the question that plagues most of us who were raised in a religious culture that emphasized works, who had mothers and fathers and pastors that kept us in rein with guilt. "If you do that Jesus will not like it (you?). " "God is going to be disappointed in you!" Wow! What Gospel were they reading? We were condemned because we could not keep the 613 Laws of the Torah--and we aren't even Jews. Where was the grace of the New Covenant? Where was the Long-Suffering Savior? Grace either forgives my sins, all my sins, or it doesn't. We seem to grapple mostly with the sins that we will commit in the future. We can accept that He has forgiven in the past and the present, but we struggle about the sins of the future. Why? Do we think that it takes a special dispensation for the Lord to forgive our uncommitted, yet future sins? That His blood is only good for yesterday's and today's sins? And not for tomorrows? I am just asking some questions...Do you have any answers? See my title...