Good Grace & What's So Amazing About Grace

In this song by Hillsong Worship, called Good Grace, we are reminded beautifully about how amazing grace is. I drew many parallels with the song and Philip Yancy's book What's So Amazing About Grace. Yancy writes,

"Grace is the church's great distinctive. It's the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else--for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world. ... Grace does not excuse sin, says Yancey, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous."


There is nothing more central to the life of a person who loves Jesus than Grace. We can't have grace without the cross. It is the cross alone that changes the course of lives.  Philip Yancy says this,

“If I care to listen, I hear a loud whisper from the gospel that I did not get what I deserved. I deserved punishment and got forgiveness. I deserved wrath and got love. I deserved debtor’s prison and got instead a clean credit history. I deserved stern lectures and crawl-on-your-knees repentance; I got a banquet—Babette’s feast—spread for me.”  (What's So Amazing About Grace?)


If you have not seen the movie or read the book Babette's feast you are missing out on something GREAT. It is a French film that draws parallels to the grace of God and the lavishness of it for all of us.

Isak Dinesen the author of Babette's Feast writes,

"Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude. Grace, brothers, makes no conditions and singles out none of us in particular; grace takes us all to its bosom and proclaims general amnesty. See! That which we have chosen is given us, and that which we have refused is, also and at the same time, granted us. Ay, that which we have rejected is poured upon us abundantly. For mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and bliss have kissed one another!"


Hillsong ends the song Good Grace this way: "Jesus, Our redemption, Our salvation Is in His blood. Jesus, Light of heaven. Friend forever, His kingdom come." 

Such good, good, good grace!
May God's amazing grace shock you anew and fill you with great joy.