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The Beauty of Christ’s All-Sufficient Merit: Why Grace Changes Everything for the Weary Soul
We live in a world that constantly attempts to measure worth by achievement, success, and perfection. People are obsessed with earning—earning approval, earning success, earning acceptance and love. Yet it always seems just out of reach. Many of us fall into the trap of thinking we must somehow earn God’s favor, and we’ve become weary from shouldering a burden we were never meant to carry.
Is Grace That Amazing?
The word “amazing” is an adjective that we use to describe something we think is astonishing, astounding, eye-opening, jaw-dropping, stunning, or stupefying. The problem in our day and age is the effect of the law of diminishing returns…nothing really amazes us. We have been so over-exposed by instant access to everything “spectacular” that we shrug off the truly amazing as ordinary and commonplace.