Topics:<\/b> Assurance; Atonement; Choices; Dependence on God; Doubt; Faith; Gift of Righteousness; Grace; Help from God; Promises; Salvation; Trust<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Exodus 32:30; John 3:16; Romans 3:21\u201326; 5:11; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8\u20139; Titus 3:3\u20137; 1 Peter 1:17\u201319; 1 John 1:9<\/p>\n
I was having breakfast with my dad and my younger son at the Real Food Caf\u00e9 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As we were finishing our meal, I noticed that the waitress brought our check, then took it away, then brought it back again. She placed it on the table, smiled, and said, \u201cSomebody in the restaurant paid for your meal. You\u2019re all set.\u201d Then she walked away.<\/p>\n
I had the strangest feeling of helplessness. There was nothing I could do. To insist on paying would have been pointless. All I could do was trust that what she said was actually true and then live in that\u2014which meant getting up and leaving the restaurant. My acceptance of what she said gave me a choice to live like it was true or to create my own reality in which the bill was not paid.<\/p>\n
That is our invitation\u2014to trust that we don\u2019t owe anything. To trust that something is already true about us, something has already been done, something has been there all along.<\/p>\n
To trust that grace pays the bill.<\/p>\n
\u2014Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis<\/i> (Zondervan, 2005)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Assurance; Atonement; Choices; Dependence on God; Doubt; Faith; Gift of Righteousness; Grace; Help from God; Promises; Salvation; Trust References: Exodus 32:30; John 3:16; Romans 3:21\u201326; 5:11; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8\u20139; Titus 3:3\u20137; 1 Peter 1:17\u201319; 1 John 1:9 I was having breakfast with my dad and my younger son at the Real Food Caf\u00e9 in … Continue reading “TAKING
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