Simple Sunday: Gift's Response

When you get a gift, you respond with a thank you and you feel like you need to do something for the person who gave you that gift, with God we don't need to do anything... yet there is a feeling still that a simple thank you will not suffice. What does God then say when he gives us the gift of grace? We can't earn it, we can;t repay him... yet there is still this feeling that we must. We can fill it with simply obeying and trusting in the gift and the God who has given the gift of grace. Some people however.... and when I say some I mean all... can treat Grace like a license to disobey... we've grown so accustomed to the act of asking for forgiveness and moving on to fight another day... but that's just the issue. A license implies that we have a privilege. A privilege to drive, a privilege to hunt, to fish... for some a license or a privilege to kill. Licenses... privileges... can be revoked. Grace cannot. Grace isn't a license. Grace demands a response of repentance. Grace demands us to worship. Not because God demands it, but because deep within ourselves we demand it... it's that little piece of God's image shining through the decay of our sinful lives. And you know what... that pleases God. It pleases Him so much, that through the grace that we have responded to... this idea of salvation comes out.
This system, this cycle, this journey was all and is all God's idea. I don't know about you but a God who comes up with things like that... a God who shines His love and mercy through our lives in this kind of a way... that is a God that I can and will worship. Through my darkness, my sinfulness, my decay, my death... Worship for such a holy and righteous God seems to burst through.
How about you?
This week will you make worship a priority?
This week will you make repentance a daily factor in your life?
If your answer is yes, welcome to the journey.

I'm going to be posting short posts, simple posts... hopefully to challenge or be a part of your weekly or daily devotions every Sunday. Hence the title: Simple Sunday ;)