“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.”
(Zechariah 12:10)
We can’t understand grace without loss. Grace only happens when someone suffers undeserved loss so that another might receive undeserved gain. If you are graced with $100 you didn’t work for, someone else had to give up $100 they did work for. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
So, what does it look like to have God’s Spirit of grace poured out upon us?
It looks like the cross. It looks like pain and agony as the firstborn Son dies alone on a haunted hill outside the city walls. It looks like silent suffering, lacerated skin, and bleeding wounds making red trails down the side of a cursed tree as the Son of God hangs upon it.
The hope we have came at a cost. Sin is expensive. May we never forget.
Matthew 4:4 #Biblebites