{"id":39859,"date":"2026-04-03T22:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39859"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:06:17","slug":"26-0404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0404\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Rewires Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Grace<\/em>. The bank gives us a grace period. The seedy politician falls from grace. Musicians speak of a grace note. We use the word for hospitals, baby girls, kings and pre-meal prayers. We talk as though we know what grace means.<\/p>\n

You turn the page of your Bible and look at the words. You might as well be gazing at a cemetery. Lifeless, stony, nothing moves you. But you don\u2019t dare close the book, no sirree. You dare not miss a deed for fear that God will erase your name.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s your feeling, grace can speak to you. God\u2019s grace has a drenching about it. It comes after you. It re-wires you. From insecure to God-secure. From regret riddled to better-because-of-it. From afraid to die to ready to fly. As Paul said in Galatians 2:20 (NKJV), \u201cIt is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.\u201d \u00a0You might call it a heart transplant.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Grace. The bank gives us a grace period. The seedy politician falls from grace. Musicians speak of a grace note. We use the word for hospitals, baby girls, kings and pre-meal prayers. We talk as though we know what grace means.<\/p>\n

You turn the page of your Bible and look at the words. You might as well be gazing at a cemetery. Lifeless, stony, nothing moves you. But you don\u2019t dare close the book, no sirree. You dare not miss a deed for fear that God will erase your name.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s your feeling, grace can speak to you. God\u2019s grace has a drenching about it. It comes after you. It re-wires you. From insecure to God-secure. From regret riddled to better-because-of-it. From afraid to die to ready to fly. As Paul said in Galatians 2:20 (NKJV), \u201cIt is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.\u201d You might call it a heart transplant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39862,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39859\/revisions\/39862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}