#undeserved grace

[yeslordmyking]

1 Samuel 12:22 — Today's Verse for Sunday, December 22, 2024

[s-o-a-p-ing]

DEUTERONOMY S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 19

Friday, 4/21/23

SCRIPTURE:

Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.   ~ Deuteronomy 19:21

OBSERVATION:

"Payback" is "one-for-one" - no escalation, no ratcheting up...

Even so - or especially so - I am SO glad and grateful that Jesus came and changed this for me...

That God showed pity - kindness - love - for me despite my "death deserving" actions - my sin...

He gave grace for life, grace for eye, grace for tooth, grace for hand, grace for foot...

His life for my life...

APPLICATION:

My life for Him...

PRAYER:

Merciful, loving heavenly Father - Thank You for giving me Jesus... May Your Holy Spirit remind me of the price He paid for me, and remind me to surrender my will for Yours every time I am tempted to wander off and do my own thing and not Yours... In Jesus's Name, Father, and for Your glory and worship and praise...

For Him... for y'all... and your'n...

g

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[keepthedelta]

james vowles trying to escape the criticism of him as a mini toto by becoming um. christian horner and helmut marko???

[wiirocku]

1 Corinthians 3:10-11 (CEV) - God treated me with undeserved grace and let me become an expert builder. I laid a foundation on which others have built. But we must each be careful how we build, because Christ is the only foundation.

[bluenerdtastemaker]

Bound and Betrayed

Four years chained, no rise, no gain,

Each victory met with silent disdain.

An Asian star, in a world of white,

Dimming his glow, denying his right.

May the ones who mocked his grace,

Fall to ruin, their deeds erased.

May the man continue to burn because this world doesn't deserve him.

[bringthekingdom]

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

“because he never accepts that it's never been about righteousness--it's about repentance.” except javert killing himself IS repentance.

well, it’s like 12 different things, because bro had gone days without sleeping and very little food and water and he already had low self-worth and kept asking the amis to kill him and just assumed he was going to die AND THEN valjean upended his understanding of the world and morality. he was really going through it & there are a lot of overlapping reasons for why he jumps into the seine.

but javert is like Number One Most Responsible guy in the whole story. taking responsibility is his Thing (forever bitter the musical doesn’t include the punish me monsieur le maire scene). how else, in his derailment, could he atone for his conceived misdeeds other than by handing in his resignation to god? in the brick he had already left a note urging his superiors to treat convicts at toulon better, which is another step in his repentance (and another crime the musical commits by not including it). jumping into the seine was another step.

honestly a lot of ppl who like the book think the musical was dead wrong to exclude him from the big heaven group sing, because it COMPLETELY undermines the themes of forgiveness and compassion threaded throughout les mis. like the musical was simply wrong lol.

This is helpful context! I am still finishing the brick, although I have fully read the abridged version, and that detail about the letter wasn't included, so I didn't know that occurred! (And thank you for the message--this is a long response but I'd love to hear more of your thoughts!)

I agree that Javert is certainly deeply distraught and remorseful; like you mentioned, his worldview is literally falling apart, and his actions reflect his mental state. But his death isn't really repentance--in the sense that it's not what God would have wanted. To me it reads like a Judas situation: a desperate realization of a huge mistake, and doing the only thing you think can make it right, namely, ending it all. That's the just punishment for someone so wrong, isn't it?

But true repentance, meaning the repentance that the Lord desires, is about changing your ways, not "paying a price." Had Javert really understood the beauty of Valjean's mercy (an image of Christ's, just as the bishop's undeserved mercy was to Valjean himself), rather than killing himself, he would have lived to also become "an honest man"--in heart. One who could forgive and understand forgiveness, for himself as well as others. One who could recognize that he is not The Law, that he can fall, but that he can also be "brought to the light." One who could accept that men like Valjean, and men like himself, CAN change, and be changed.

It's tragic to me because so much of "Stars," and his character in the book as well as the musical, is about wanting to be righteous, to rise above his birth and the sinfulness he associates it with. It's about wanting to please the Lord by his actions. But in his end, he shows he never understood what God really wanted from him, and that's where my original phrase comes in: not righteousness, but repentance. To live, and face the man you were, knowing it's no longer the man you are. That it's never been about what you've done or can do, but about what's been done for you. That's the Gospel that he could never fully accept.

To use another example you mentioned, that misunderstanding drives why he asks the Mayor (Valjean) to punish him--in his worldview, mercy is unjust, or at the very least, unfair. Evil must be punished; "those who fall like Lucifer fell" receive "the sword." But "as it is written," God "desires mercy, not sacrifice" (Matthew 9:13). God would have wanted Javert to live, and Javert couldn't see that, and that's why it's devastating to me. In his misunderstanding of the heart of God, he misses what would have set him free from the chains of sin he's always been trying to escape.

That's why he's contrasted with Valjean, who (though he carries guilt about his past till the end of his life) is eventually able to face it and confess what he had done to those he loves. He knew there was mercy to be found, if only it was asked for. Javert was too blinded by pride and shame to realize it, and so, while broken, he never was able to truly repent.

For that, you must go on.

[19catsncounting]

What if one of the reasons Lucifer cast a jaundiced eye at humanity was because humans get an afterlife in Heaven and angels Don't?

God didn't stop making crazy bloodthirsty primordial creatures after the Leviathans and angels and hellhounds and even Lucifer feared the Shedim for an implicit reason, so the odds are pretty decent that at least one angel was killed between the creation of the angels and the Garden of Eden, and the angels probably had to be like "...Where Thee Fuck is Death Taking Our Brother Steveniel" and God ~Mysteriously~ said "Don't worry about it :)" (because The Empty is never really mentioned until it's shown and when Castiel dies or kills other angels it's not "They're resting now" but "They're Fucking Annihilated") but then at some point in the human evolutionary tree they get souls (Supernatural explicitly denying the Adam and Eve creation myth with the "big plans for that fish" line but still having a Garden of Eden is fascinating and messy in this way but I personally think there were more than just two homo sapiens in the Garden and one of them might've dropped dead because the original plan for humanity and how much divinity or purity was defiled or lost is So Very Debatable) and those souls get to go to Heaven and Lucifer??? Is just supposed to be Chill about it???

Like, even if Lucifer thinks that they'll just Never Die, there's a Decent Chance that if they do, God's just gonna wave goodbye as Death carries them off to that Mysterious Somewhere beyond creation and God and... Yeah I don't think I'd be super enthused if I knew that if I tripped over my own feet on accident, my weird uncle would just carry me off the face of the earth Forever and my dad, my entire world, would just Let That Happen. All while my snotty nosed toddler sibling gets to stumble around and gets picked up and cooed over every time they fall.

(And then Lucifer dies and God brings them back and gives them the mission of fucking over the Winchesters and Boy That's Pretty Embarassing I Guess Dad Does Love Me Haha Jk I Was A Lil Crazy Back in Middle School 🤪 )

[brown-little-robin]

(stumbles out of jojo's bizarre adventure covered in blood) well that was fun! I don't recommend it

[llondonfog]

I will honestly never pick up this game again if we find out that Lilia was off somewhere playing video games while Silver was putting himself on the line for the sake of interspecies harmony, FULLY READY TO ACCEPT PUNISHMENT THAT HE DIDN'T DESERVE (me throttling ace and jack in the bg!!!!), and being the one and only true human-fae liaison!!!

This chapter alone made me all the more certain that he has to be some manner of royalty; you just know if he ends up being a prince he's going to dedicate his entire life improving relations between briar valley and humans, all for the sake of following Lilia's teachings and to fulfill his father's dream

[yeslordmyking]

1 John 4:21 — Today's Verse for Sunday, April 21, 2024

[silvcrignis]

Anything in my inbox not from @manufactoredxbyxdesign/ @lxdyvenxm , @xpricity & @darkheartedprince or Taea's other 50 blogs are getting deleted. Lmfao if you don't know why then that's exactly why.

[wiirocku]

1 Corinthians 3:10 (CEV) - God treated me with undeserved grace and let me become an expert builder. I laid a foundation on which others have built. But we must each be careful how we build,

[tonyjwash]

Just Grace...

What I’m going to share with you tonight will lead you to a lifetime of freedom, if you want it. Just grace. As simple as that. For a word we use so often in our lives, you would think we would understand it more. We say grace before a meal. We offer grace in our dealings with people. We live in the time period called. “the Grace Administration.” We use grace in connection with style and fluidity…

[tom4jc]

Ephesians 6:24 Grace With Sincere Love

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. Ephesians 6:24 Undeserved favor is something that most people want. They want others to not hold things against them and give them what they desire. This is often sought for out of a call to love others. The world will love when there is something in it for themselves. The more that one gets, the more one will choose to…

[bi-writes]

just his girl being so attracted to simon and him not understanding it. (18+)

i mean like...he's never had a girlfriend like this. he's never even had a girlfriend, period, not really, not anyone he's seen more than once, not one that he's known long enough to remember her name.

he just doesn't get it. whenever he comes into your vicinity, he can see the sparkle in your eyes. the smile that graces your face, the way your expression lights up, the way your body moves on its own just to get closer to him.

he wonders if he lets you because of the sick satisfaction he feels. to be the center of your attention, it makes him feel so fucking special, so important. another man can look at you the same way, but he knows your cunt will be dry. but when he looks at you that way, he can see the way your legs squeeze together, and he loves knowing that if he flipped up the hem of your skirt, you'd be so sticky and practically drooling there, all for him.

he doesn't think himself very attractive. he's had his fair share of one night stands, but the way you keen for him makes him so hungry. he loves hearing you whine when he grabs your ass, loves feeling you drip onto his fingers when he kisses you after a long day, loves the way that nothing else will ever make you smile the way he can when he touches your face.

"i love you so much," you whisper, and he has to look away or else he'll groan.

"i missed you," you whimper after he's been away for a long time, and he has to bite back the tremble in his lip because fuck, he missed you, too.

"you're so big, baby," you whine, and he can't help the way he chubs up immediately as you feel up his thick biceps, along his pecs, over the warm layer of fat around his solid middle. you can cum so fast just riding his big thigh, hell--you can cum by yourself just looking at him. he's so hot to you, so handsome, even if he doesn't take his mask off or any of his clothes, because you love him so much, and his eyes are sometimes all you need to feel enough. and fuck if that isn't the biggest ego boost, seeing his girl's pussy creaming just by fixating on the flex of his big hand.

his confidence is so puffed whenever he's around you. he gets goosebumps whenever your eyes are on him. even now, it's been years with you, and you still make him feel like the hottest guy in the room with the way your eyes look him up and down.

you're his perfect girl. his best prize. he doesn't understand how he ever got you, how he ever reeled you in, but there isn't a day that goes by that he doesn't understand how undeserving he is of you and how incredibly lucky he is. it makes him selfish. he has you, and he can't lose you, so fuck how he has to keep you, cause he will. and he thinks you like that, too.

he thinks you like the way he fondles you under your skirt in a crowded place. he thinks you like the way he fucks, deep thrusts as he grips your face and murmurs mine, mine, mine between low groans and fingerprint bruises. he thinks you like the way he hovers, glaring at anyone that looks your way and devouring you in a grocery store parking lot because the cashier at the till looked at your legs for just a second too long, and need ta remind ya who ya belong to, pet.

you were wet anyways, he had worn short sleeves that day, and your eyes hadn't left his tattoo sleeve since he came out of the shower. so wet, ruining those panties, his favorite little black pair with the skull print pattern along the band.

dripping, creamy, pulsing little cunt that is all his. hadn't so much as even touched you yet, and here you are, drooling so sweet. he just didn't want to waste the meal.