Again, here is the thought I began this study on: Many talk and teach about grace but few, very few, are comfortable with the price.
In my book There’s Only Grace I explored the reality of the incarnation of Jesus and his birth as a bastard. Yes, you read that correctly. No disrespect intended, simply the fact of being born to an unwed mother. For all the doctrine, glitz and glamour afforded our savior, somehow the social stigma assigned to people of his birth just doesn’t seem to be noteworthy. How can this be a price of grace?
Ask yourself: Am I comfortable with a bastard Savior? Does this trouble you? It doesn’t seem to be an issue with the Father, who in all the planning of creation intentionally made this a point of demarcation, “… born of a woman, under the law…” What was the motive for such a move in the reconciliation of mankind? Did you just see the clue.
Are you comfortable with a price of grace that eradicates distinction? Can you welcome an exclusive Savior who is all inclusive? Is it comforting to know your grace applies equally to even the worst hardened, sadistic, ISIS loving, LBGT, drunken, drug addicted, republican/democratic, us versus them person out there? If I missed anyone in that description, are you comfortable with them being excluded?
This is the price of a free gift which operates from an understanding of reciprocal giving. All really does mean ALL; not “my four and no more…” Are you able to find comfort in opening to the disenfranchised the gift that says “…as you have done to the least of these you have done to me…” Comfort does have a price.
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