{"id":222,"date":"2009-09-04T20:16:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T19:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/?p=222"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:22:24","slug":"generations-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Generations of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuart Townend
\nGrace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord, I\u2019m grateful
\nAmazed at what You\u2019ve done
\nMy finest efforts are filthy rags
\nBut I\u2019m made righteous
\nBy trusting in the Son
\nI have God\u2019s riches at Christ\u2019s expense!<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause it\u2019s grace!
\nThere\u2019s nothing I can do
\nTo make You love me more,
\nTo make You love me less than You do
\nAnd by faith
\nI\u2019m standing on this Stone
\nOf Christ and Christ alone
\nYour righteousness is all that I need
\n\u2018Cause it\u2019s grace!<\/p>\n

Called and chosen
\nWhen I was far away
\nYou brought me into Your family
\nFree, forgiven
\nMy guilt is washed away
\nYour loving kindness is life to me<\/p>\n

Freely given
\nBut bought with priceless blood
\nMy life was ransomed at Calvary
\nThere my Jesus
\nGave everything He could
\nThat I might live for eternity<\/p>\n

Grace loves the sinner
\nLoves all I am and all I\u2019ll ever be
\nMakes me a winner
\nWhatever lies the devil throws at me<\/p>\n

I was just listening to this in preparation for singing it at my dear friends wedding tomorrow when I was struck by something. Stuart Townend is older than me. This is an important thing for me to remember because I have a tendancy to be a little arrogant in my faith. I have discovered (actually, God has shown me) this beautiful thing, God’s grace, and I am a young man. As a result I often act as though this amazing thing which I found out is unique to me, and that the generations before me probably didn’t “get it”.<\/p>\n

It’s easy enough to look back at the big names like Luther and Calvin and accept that those guys had a handle on the truth of the gospel, but much closer to home, the generations of my parents and my grandparents, it’s much easier to overlook them. It’s really easy for me to be arrogant and think things like “well the Church is in a mess because the guys who are older than me just didn’t understand the gospel, so they screwed everything up.”<\/p>\n

OK, so in some instances this is probably true, and continues to be. But it isn’t true universally. The grace that God has revealed to me he also revealed to the generation before me, and the generation before them.<\/p>\n

1 Timothy 4:12 says “Let no one despise you for your youth”. Let’s not despise people because of their lack of youth either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stuart Townend Grace Lord, I\u2019m grateful Amazed at what You\u2019ve done My finest efforts are filthy rags But I\u2019m made righteous By trusting in the Son I have God\u2019s riches at Christ\u2019s expense! \u2018Cause it\u2019s grace! There\u2019s nothing I can … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,30,93],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gospel","tag-grace","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}