There is this Relient K song that I randomly heard for the first time in years, and there is this one part of the song that always gets me. Every time I listen to it, there is this one line that sticks to me. "The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair" What?! What?! Did you get that?
When people think of something being unfair, we think of having an unfair advantage, and it being bad. For example if you're 4' 11 1/2" and you're playing basketball with a guy who's 6' 2" the short kid thinks the game is unfair. Well you see, having something be unfair can sometimes be a good thing especially when it comes to grace.
Now to understand why, you first must understand the definition of grace. Grace--getting what you don't deserve / unmerited favor. So pretty much grace is getting something you don't deserve. We are people, and people are sinners (Romans 3:23), and because we are all sinners, we need to be saved from sin and hell. Thats where Jesus comes in. Jesus came to the Earth to save us (John 3:16). We have been saved!
You see, we as people are saved even though we don't deserve it because we are sinners. God loved us so much to show us all this amazing grace so that he could see our faces in the kingdom of heaven. If life were fair would we be saved, would we have been shown grace? No because the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair.
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