What About Grace?

I wonder if we will allow His Spirit

   to search out our very being;

Or will the pain be too very great

   in what His eyes are seeing?

To renew my mind that His grace is free,

   is, of course, His way to victory;

But, if it provokes a defense of my way,

   my opinion reigns lord; not what He has to say.

I’ve noticed, the one’s that defend ‘free gift’s’ way;

   will argue, “There’s no strings attached”;

A very true statement, if what you mean:

   Is unhindered with power to submit your whole being;

and stop defending, in the name of grace,

   the thing that you really don’t want to face.

Will a righteous God, from Whom came this gift;

   make an exception for me...

to walk in a way to misrepresent

   what even the world’s eyes can see?

The power of grace is nothing less

   than to walk in the way that’s already blessed;

There is a way, because of this,

   that’s already cursed and it doesn’t exist...

to allow you to take His gift down that road,

   and expect to be blessed;

You must carry your load.

A child that won’t take authority’s instruction;

  will walk in this life reproducing destruction.

This doesn’t take discernment to see;

   The child’s rebellion: Self will’s victory!

My mercy prevails and suffers long;

   But there will be an end to this sad song.

Certainly not My plan for this life;

   Yet, My grace hasn’t lost any power;

But if he persists to call on ‘free’ choice,

   he remains lord of his final hour.

‘Strings attached’ has become a clever excuse

   to blame someone else for your stubborn

   misuse...

of the real purpose behind My death:

   The power of grace to enter My rest.

What you call ‘Laws’ or sometimes ‘works’;

   to earn My free gift: Not My way;

But working this good and submitting to Me,

   is to eventually hear Me say,

“Well done, My daughter; Well done, My son;

   With the power of grace, you’ve finally won”

By ‘eventually’, I mean, right here on this earth;

   This is where the battle rages;

To prove to yourself and the spirit world;

   I remain The Lord of all ages.

In Heaven, I remain the Total Lord;

   This never comes into question;

My power is waiting for your choice of this;

   In spite of Satan’s suggestions.

A harder walk than I thought it would be;

   As Satan so often agrees with me;

And then, I try to justify,

   with excuses that really make me deny;

the real reason He gave me ‘right being’;

   So He can be Lord; Yet, I demand seeing.

I suspect the real reason I don’t;

   (If allowed, His Spirit would reveal)

I’d rather be in charge of my life;

   Thus, try to prove what I feel.

Un-submitted, Satan’s fertile ground;

   Trapped in feelings and opinions.

Your Spirit, indeed, has shown me this;

 Judged...Grace can now take dominion.