The weight of Grace.
Grace Is Not Light Grace — we say it with ease, we sing about it in soft tones, we write it on greeting cards. Yet few of us ever stop to feel the weight of what we’re talking about. Grace is not a light thing. It is the heaviest gift heaven ever carried to earth — the full weight of divine mercy laid upon the shoulders of humanity. Grace is not permission to live carelessly; it is power to live righteously. It is not a gentle pat on the back of our sin, but the hammer that broke our chains. And the more we understand it, the more we realize that grace, while free, is not cheap. The Cost Behind the Word When Paul wrote, “For by grace you have been saved through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8), he wasn’t writing poetry. He was testifying. Paul had felt the crushing weight of guilt, the blindness of self-righteousness, and the shock of mercy on the Damascus road (Acts 9:3–6). That encounter burned itself into his life. Grace found him...