Sunday’s Food for Thought: Grace and Responsibility
We have all received God’s grace.
Be it good health, a family, the ability to work and perform, musical talents, the ability to give encouraging words, creative minds. Anything. And no one could ever say, ‘I have never received any of such grace.’
The thing is, many tend to forget that for every grace that we’ve received, we are responsible and accountable for it.
Grace of God demands responsibility.
If we have a relatively higher IQ than others, do we use it to manipulate others and twist what’s true and right?
If we are someone with many talents, do we waste them away by not exploring and developing them further?
If we are blessed with one or two or more little ones in the family, do we abuse our ‘parental authority’? Do we stop learning to be better parents for them, the kind God wants us to be?
Have we been responsible with what we have been blessed with?
The reality is, we’ll all need to answer for everything that we’ve chosen to do in our lives. And those who’ve wasted or misused God’s abundant grace will be judged, twice as hard.
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If we’re blessed with high intellects, then let us be people who are humble too.
If we’re blessed with many talents, then let us be people who are righteous too.
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God has planted different potentials in everyone of us. The question is, have we discovered, explored and developed our God-given potentials to the max?
Have we done our best?
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[note: This post is inspired by today’s sermon by Rev. Stephen Tong]
