Without Qualification
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Without Qualification
| “We are accustomed to finding a catch in every promise but Jesus’ stories of extravagant grace include no catch, no loophole disqualifying us from God’s love. Each has as it’s core an ending too good to be true – or so good that it must be true.” – Philip Yancey |
One of the major things that we can become guilty of in the Christian life is to qualify God’s intentions when at times he does not make that qualification. Our intentions may be good but we drive people farther away from God when we seek to become the one to interpret God’s will for them. Over the period of our own spiritual pilgrimage, there are things that we come to embrace and hold dear when we choose to make them our own. It is the context of freedom to respond to God that fosters the greatest growth.
This is not to say that there will not be times when we input into the lives of our brothers and sisters. There will be such occasions but even this must be done with “gentleness and respect”.
