Emilie [diligent worker] Lauren [guarded by God]

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Too Good for Charity

"I love to give charity, but I don't want to be charity. That is why I have so much trouble with grace."
-Donald Miller

This sentence struck a chord with me. I absouletely love to give to people, but I hate accepting things. Even someone offering to pay for my dinner and I freak out, as if I couldn't afford to. Because I do not like recieving an umerited gift, let alone a merited one, how am I suppose to accept God's grace without doing something? I'd much rather be able to say I earned it.

...Too bad it doesn't work like that. His grace is there no matter what. Its my heart which has to choose to accept it. Not to earn it. Just like his love, I cannot earn. I just have to accept it.