It Doesn't Make Sense

Some things just don’t make sense. 

Let me give you some examples.

In the Bible, there was a woman caught in adultery.  She was about to be stoned to death when Christ came along.  Do you remember what he said to her?  “Neither do I condemn you.  Go and sin no more.”

Doesn’t make sense.

Zach was a problem citizen.  He was a tax man and he was very good at his job.  However, in order to be that good he charged some more than the going rate.  Not the man I would choose as a best friend. 

But when Christ came along, he invited himself to dinner – an act unheard of in that day.  And the end result – he changed Zacchaeus’ life. 

Doesn't make sense. 

John’s life didn’t make sense.  His mother died when he was seven.  His father taught him the shipping business where he served on six different ships, working his way up the proverbial ladder of success.  As life wore on, it also got hard for John.  He joined the Royal Navy, attempted to desert, attempted suicide, and ultimately found his way to the slave trade business. 

Imagine, the man who wrote “Amazing Grace” being a former slave trader who attempted suicide. 

Doesn't make sense. 

Grace sometimes doesn't make sense.  Philip Yancey says this in “What’s So Amazing about Grace ... "Grace goes against all instincts."  

Same for my life and yours.  God’s grace flows down – undeserved, unearned, often unexpectedly.

We can’t earn grace.

   We can’t buy it in a store.

      We can’t barter for it.

All we do is accept it. 

And we can pass it on to others.

      -We can extend terms on money owed us.

    -We can allow someone in front of us in the grocery line.

  -We can slow down to allow a car to enter a clogged roadway.

-We can forgive a wrong.

Haven’t we all had amazing grace shown to us?

Sometimes we can’t figure it out – it just doesn't make sense.

Extend grace anyway. 

P Michael Biggs

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