Encouragement For Those Times
of Failure
A person's
toleration level for mistakes has its definite
limits, but God is eternally patient with you.
In his book In The Grip Of Grace, Max Lucado
explains the wonder of God's infinite grace:
"I'm glad the
letter wasn't sent from heaven. It came from
my automobile insurance company, my former
automobile insurance company. I didn't drop
them; they dropped me. . . . I was dropped for
making too many mistakes.
"Isn't that
like a doctor treating healthy patients only?
Or a dentist hanging a sign in the window, 'No
cavities, please?' . . . Isn't that like
qualifying for a loan by proving you don't
need one? What if the fire department said it
would protect you until you had a fire? . . .
Or what if, perish the thought, heaven had
limitations to its coverage?
". . . If an
insurance company can't cover my honest
mistakes, can I expect God to cover my
intentional rebellion? Paul answers the
question with what John Stott calls 'the most
startling statement in Romans.' God 'makes
even evil people right in his sight' (Rom.
4:5). What an incredible claim! . . .
"Surely
coverage is provided for the driver with the
clean record, but the speeder? . . . How in
the world can justification come for the evil?
It can't. It can't come from the world. It
must come from heaven. Man has no way, but God
has a way . . .