Grace-filled Obedience

“Dutiful is not beautiful to a Lord for whom minimal law-keeping was never in His plan. Though Jesus willingly accepts obedience that fears to break commandments, He revels in those moments when we act from deeper love and practiced gratitude. As we kneel to wash another’s feet, offer mercy from full hearts, or hold the sinful because we know that we are in the grip of grace, we pass from being servants to the friends He always seeks. Only lives awash in grace can truthfully declare, ‘I delight to do Your will, O my God’ (Psalm 40:8, NRSV). So bring your Saviour joy today—and stay in grace.”