The two places I would like to keep us:
1. Judging other people continually for their sins while failing to recognize the sins in ourselves.
2. Becoming self-consumed with our own sin, wallowing, fearful, and full of self-pity, inert in effectiveness due to spiritual immobility.
He never wants you to discover how radical grace really is for both you and others.
These two places—judging others without self-awareness and being paralyzed by our own sin—are traps that not only distort our view of grace but also neutralize our ability to live it out. They are demonic safe-spaces.
Judging others makes us feel high, mighty, and self-righteous, as if we’re better off, not recognizing the 2/4 in our own eye. On the other hand, being consumed by our own failures keeps us stuck, unable to move or see a way forward in the freedom Christ has given us. Both are tactics to keep us from experiencing the transformative power of God’s radically radical grace.
The most radical passage in Scripture:
Gal. 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Grace is not just a safety net—it’s the power that sets us free. It allows us to extend mercy to others without arrogance and to walk forward ourselves without shame. The enemy hates grace because it disarms him completely. It is an area for which he has no arsenal, no battle plan, and no victories.
Step out of these traps today. Embrace the freedom of grace—radical for both you and those around you—and live in the power of Christ who lives in you.
