A while back, I wrote down some lessons I've learned along the way.. or insights into the right focus and priorities (these relate to biblical living)...:
- Focusing on the fruit of the Spirit is the wrong focus. One should focus on walking with the Spirit, heeding His promtings and the fruit of the Spirit will follow.
- Perhaps one aspect of grace can be described as love: overlooking wrongs, sins, ideosyncracies; and rather build up and encourage the offending person. It removes any offenses we may have done in response and gives the other the opportunity to in a better manner.
- Love encourages knowing a person as they are. Pride restricts a person to the image we have of them, reducing them as a human and hampers our ability to know them as they truly are. Since we are made to have relationships with God and others, pride is abhorrent and a perversion to God because it prevents us from being as we are created to be.
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If "Pride restricts a person to the image we have of them..." then is it prideful to then encourage that person toward righteousness? Might this hamper what the individual perceives what they "truly are."
I think that it would be more accurate to say that Grace gives up the right to execute judgement or retribution for sin. Love seeks to bring a sinner to repentance.
Grace doesn't overlook wrongs or sins. Not even God overlooks wrongs or sins. They have to be paid for. There are consequences. For salvation, this was paid in full in the hideousness of the cross. In the case of relationships, love holds accountable and helps us to become how God would have us be. Grace simply means that I'm not going to give the offender what they deserve. It does not remove all consequence.
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