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Have you gotten grace yet?
Louie Talks about this scripture - I love it!2 Cor 5:13
"For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. "
THE IDEA: when we fully get grace - grace gets us too... and when we get it it "will freak you out". When we understand the magnitude of grace (why it's called Amazing Grace) then we will just temporarily lose our minds!
We have to act "sane" in order to operate in this world - in order to communicate the message to people who haven't gotten it, so they can get it and you can both go crazy together! Ha! = )
Check it out in The Message Bible with verse 14:
"If I acted crazy, I did it for God;
if I acted overly serious, I did it for you.
Christ's love has moved me to such extremes.
His love has the first and last word in everything we do."
Verse 14 in the NIV says: "For Christ's love compels* us, because we are convinced** that one died for all, and therefore all died."
*(to Compel means 'to have a powerful and irresistible effect')
**('we ARE conviced' - aka - "we get it!")
May we never lose our passion for the sake of the Gosple, our wonder at the Cross and our joy in the love of our Creator.
