Clay in the Hands

This Holy Week is about grace and faith.

Grace is not grace if you deserve it.  Grace is not grace if there is something you can do to earn it.  Grace  is that which God does for us because we cannot do for ourselves.  We have things in our lives there is no way we could ever repair.  There is no way we could ever be strong enough, competent enough or righteous enough to deserve a relationship with the Holy God.  So Jesus came to make a way.  God’s instrument of grace sacrificed himself for us because we could never deserve God’s grace on our own.

Faith is believing without seeing.  Knowing ourselves as we do, we might be tempted to think, “There is no way God could ever love me.”  But scripture reminds us that God loves us so much that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  We simply have to believe.

So this Holiest of weeks is about grace and faith.  It is a vivid picture of how God offers his grace even when we do not – and cannot ever – deserve it.  We are simply asked to trust and believe.

Make space to experience that grace this week.  Make space to rest in that faith.

Be blessed!