Grace Fully

So believe
If you will
And only as you will
Grace
That makes faith real
Is offered freely
And
Exists regardless

Believe in God or do not
Same
With the life of faith
After and
With belief

And
Don’t let any tell you
Another person
Anyway
That he or she dispenses grace
If only you subscribe

Grace
And also faith
Don’t work
That way

The first need being only
You and God
Should you choose
And
Should you accept

Then there is the life of faith
In which you might choose
Healthy
Earthly affiliation

And while to have and keep
Sadly
It’s not
To say the faithful life is easy all the time
While
Through it all
The obstacles
Worldly
Self-styled
Do promise
Spiritually
Well
The Spirit’s ease
And even peace and joy

Be the judge of grace
And faith
To start with God or
Not
And
Don’t let any other take the judging role
Except God
And then remember God is truth
And also
God
Is love


I heard once that church should be rejected because it claims to dispense grace—and also, as such, the church charges something (membership, money, doctrinal adherence) in order to receive the grace if offers, if not dangles.  But grace is not or ever owned this way.  (Or owed, either.)  Grace is from God, and grace is free.  It is the free means to receive the saving favor of the Lord.  As means or to exist at all, grace comes at no cost of ours, the price for grace, so to say, having in fact been paid by God.  We are saved by faith in God.  And as if faith were great art, grace is the frame.


C L Couch


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“In the Park”
Kyiv, Украина