The Amazing Grace of God

[The Amazing Grace of God](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) Current Teaching Series [Living in the Goodness of God](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [Listen to Today's Broadcast](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [The Amazing Grace of God](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) By Rick Warren — February 18, 2019 [Facebook](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [Twitter](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [Pinterest](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [Email](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [Devotional image from Rick Warren](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) “[God] knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust” (Psalm 103:14 GNT). Your failures don’t surprise God. He expects them. He knows what we’re made of—because he created us. The Bible says, “[God] knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust” (Psalm 103:14 GNT). God won’t stop loving you when you mess up. The central message of the Bible is this: God doesn’t love you because of who you are or what you’ve done but because of who he is and what he has done. God made you. He loves you. It’s settled. You can’t make God love you more. You can’t make God love you less. He loves you just as much on your bad days as he does on your good days. His love is not performance-based. The Bible has a word for this: grace. And it’s absolutely amazing. God looks at you and says, “I choose to love you. And you can’t make me stop loving you.” Even when we’re ridiculously bad, God won’t stop loving us. It truly is amazing grace. When you realize his grace, you can relax about your failures—and have the confidence to take more risks. You may have gone to God multiple times for forgiveness on the same issue. Maybe you’re not sure you deserve his love and grace. (You can settle that now. You don’t.) And you’re convinced that God has grown tired of your constant efforts at change. (He hasn’t.) God never tires of a conversation with you. He’s never too busy. No matter how many times you go to him for forgiveness, he’ll be waiting with open arms. You may have grown up in a home where conditional love was the norm. Your parents’ affections may have been based on your academic, athletic, or social successes. When you failed in one of those areas, you felt the loss of your family’s love. You can relax. That’s not how God deals with you. The Bible says, “[God] canceled the debt, which listed all the rules we failed to follow. He took away that record with its rules and nailed it to the cross” (Colossians 2:14 NCV). The Christian life isn’t a mistake-free life, but it can be a guilt-free life. God understands your failures—and he loves you anyway. That’s God’s amazing grace Talk About It - How does it make you feel to realize that God loves you in spite of your failures? - How does the realization of God’s response to your mistakes and failures affect the way you deal with other people’s mistakes and failures? - With whom can you share the Good News of God’s amazing grace? [Facebook](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [Twitter](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [Pinterest](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) [Email](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) 6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r [Our Gift: Living in the Goodness of God Guided Experience](6cuJhIYNu:m:1:2618166767:C210A0A5E8E7906B1817F163E0C92A2B:r) Is God really good all the time? Absolutely, but too often we don’t live like we believe it. This in-depth guided experience is much more than a Bible study. 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