This morning in SGBS, Jason asked us to think about what our lives would be like without the intervention of God's Grace. I think mine would go a little something like this:
I'd probably be a musician in a band, and into drugs. I'd probably stuck in some apartment somewhere with a girlfriend that I have sex with about once or twice a week, or whenever we feel like it, smoking pot and popping pills. I probably wouldn't have much of a relationship with my family, but I'm willing to bet I'd still love them, just at a distance. I would probably be very smart, but also very self-serving and something of a schemer, and maybe a thief.
Where would I be without Grace right now?
Angry. Angry, and more alone than I sometimes already feel. Probably also wouldn't have a whole lot -- no RA job, no internship, nada. I'd probably also struggle with serious depression and I might even cry myself to sleep at night, or become an alcoholic. I probably wouldn't blog much either. It's very likely I wouldn't even be at UMHB anymore.
Kind of crazy to think how amazing grace is.
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that's really scary.
you know what is also scary to me?
what if you weren't any of those things... you were at a good school, with a good girlfriend and job, and a bright future. you were doing your life for yourself only, and you were doing a pretty good job of it... and you couldn't see that you needed grace? sure, you'd have problems but by doing things your way and looking out for yourself you'd gotten through them.
i kind of think this is the furthest from grace that a person can get, because they can see no reason why they would let someone else run their life if they could do it fine themselves. that is so scary to me.
what do you think?
it is a scary thought.
and, really good, thoughtful (also scary) response kels.
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