Abraham the Outsider: Part 7 — Too Good to be True

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God’s grace is bigger than we are.  The confines of our lives — their span, their capacity — are too tight. 

Grace has a way of spilling over the edges and going into the lives of other people.

This, of course, is a good thing.  But we Americans have a hard time with it.  We want everything reduced to the scale we can take into ourselves.

Genesis chapter 17 really shows how little of what God is doing has to do with us.  But that’s not a bad thing — that is the best thing that could possibly be.  As the old hymn says, God’s grace extends as far as the curse is found.   And that can seem almost too good to be true.