Fall Into His Grace
By Bonnie Beardsley
If you are on fire are you going to pick and choose what part is going into the large body of water? “Oh, I think I'll just put my big toe on the left foot and everything will be fine.” You would probably be falling completely into the water, taking the “Nestea Plunge”. Why then do we not take the plunge into God's grace.
“Wait a minute,” you might say. “I received God's grace when I accepted Him as my Savior.”
That is true, but many of us have kept places in our hearts locked up tight and have kept His grace from reaching hurts and wrong thinking. I know this all too well, after years of verbal and emotional abuse from my dad the Band-Aid of bitterness had sealed off many wounds and hurts so I would not feel them. It did a good job and I didn't need to revisit those old emotional wounds. So I thought.
The reality was, daily I revisited those hurts. My thinking betrayed the hurts hiding underneath the bitterness. I wore a mask that everything was OK. This mask, I first put it on in high school and wore it ever since. Reality was the bitterness had let the wounds fester over the years and there was all kinds of puss in my heart. Every once in a while that puss would ooze out and it wasn't pretty.