"Do we know what it
means to be struck by grace?" Tillich asks. This was a provocative notion to me, an odd
metaphor, to describe God's grace as something that strikes, that jars us into
a new way of thinking, that collides with our old way of being. He continues, "We cannot transform our
lives, unless we allow them to be transformed by that stroke of
grace." The first movement toward
the new creation, the transformed life, and becoming the person God wants us to
be begins when we face the startling reality of God's unconditional love for
us. Receiving the love and forgiveness
of God, beginning to comprehend its meaning, and opening ourselves to the new
life it brings can be as disrupting as an earthquake, as abrupt as lightening
striking across the black night sky. It
means we've been struck by grace.
-- Robert Schnase in Five Practices of Fruitful Living
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