Cotton Candy
My kids have been asking me for Cotton Candy lately the other day Missy and I told them that if they did certain things around the house we would get them some. They didnt… Well my wife had to go to bible study and I was watching the kids, so I went and got them some Cotton Candy and balloons and a movie so we would have a fun night but I was wanting to teach the a lesson. I came home and they saw it and they were all excited and I pulled out the bags of Cotton Candy and I asked them if they wanted it, they said YES! I then asked if they deserved it? And they said. YES! It was not working the way I hoped, I said no you dont deserve it, did you do what we asked you and one by one they realized they had not. I explained about grace, and how we dont deserve it, we didnt deserve Jesus dying in our place, we dont deserve heaven, we dont deserve all the great things God blesses us with and this cotton candy was an example of grace.
It seemed good, I thought they got it, but you know, later they were fighting and the temptation was to take away the grace (I mean the Cotton Candy). You know I wonder about that, even in my best efforts to express God’s grace to my children, this is where God and I differ greatly. I want to take it back. God does not. He will not! And it is so crazy to think about how I continually mess up through my life, yet I must remember it is by grace I am saved. I want to get all judgemental (emphasis on “mental”) on people, I forget the grace that God has given me and he wont remove it.
Where the anology breaks down - Cotton Candy is sweet for a second then it’s gone, grace should not be like that, it should be more like a everlasting gobstopper!
It should be something that we are constanly reminded of and changing us. Paul said in1 Cor. 15:10 “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” Grace should make us work hard, it should be something we don’t forget.
Ask yourself these questions:
Do I only give God external service?
Do I sense that God’s commands are a burden to me?
If you said yes, you need to pray that God will make his grace take effect on your life, that you would be able to say as Paul did, because of God’s grace I want to work even harder for Him!
“Finally God’s grace is not our license to sin it is our freedom from sin. Jude 1:4 For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”
Don’t change God’s grace into something it was never meant to be, if you have sinner repent (turn away from the thing you know is wrong), you will find God’s grace is real and life changing. And it is enough
