Wild Grace by Max Lucado

Author:Max Lucado
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2012-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

We also still have a few things to learn. One is that forgiveness is something you do. Another is how to accept unearned grace.

“Since I, the Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you” (John 13:14–15 NLT).

To accept grace is to accept the promise to give it.

Nine months after Victoria Ruvolo’s disastrous night, she stood titanium-bolted face-to-face with her offender in court. Ryan Cushing was no longer the cocky, turkeytossing kid in the Nissan. He was trembling, tearful, and apologetic. For New York City he had come to symbolize a generation of kids out of control. People packed the room to see him get his punishment. The judge’s sentence enraged them—only six months behind bars, five years’ probation, some counseling, and public service.

The courtroom erupted. Everyone objected. Everyone, that is, except Victoria Ruvolo. She’d asked the judge for the light sentence. The boy walked over, and she embraced him. In full view of the judge and the crowd, she held him tight, stroked his hair. He sobbed, and she spoke: “I forgive you. I want your life to be the best it can be.”4

She allowed grace to shape her response. “God gave me a second chance at life, and I passed it on,” she says.5 “If I hadn’t let go of that anger, I’d be consumed by this need for revenge. Forgiving him helps me move on.”6

To accept grace is to accept the promise to give it.

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