Certainly there have been days, perhaps years, when I didn’t
welcome grace. I didn’t want the Holy Spirit to come and tear apart my carefully
constructed idols… idols I had put together over the years as substitutes for dependence
on God. Thankfully, God is a jealous God
and will not long share space in our soul with our idols. Our idols allow us to
con ourselves into self-righteousness because when our idols work for us we
imagine, perhaps sub-consciously, that we really don’t need God, that we can be
righteous all be our self.
Ambushed by grace, our self-righteousness is slowly but
surely assaulted by the Holy Spirit until it crumbles under the weight of God’s
love. First we fight it. We don’t want that grace. It tears apart all of our
defenses. It destroys all of our god-substitutes. Then either our heart grows harder or we
begin to welcome the destructive power of grace. The Holy Spirit clears out our
idols. And as painful as that may be, it’s
the best thing that can happen to us! When that grace fueled, love lavished
destruction of our idols happens, then and only then do we begin to experience the
unfathomable depths of the joy God has in store for his sons and daughters.
I fought him too long! I might fight him again tomorrow but
if I do, I welcome his beautiful destructive grace! Quit fighting the Holy
Spirit and his grace! Give in and experience his boundless joy.
Harrison
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