{"id":40099,"date":"2026-04-26T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40099"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:12:23","slug":"26-0427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0427\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Grace Begin with You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260427_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260427_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260427_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most people keep a pot of anger on low boil. But you aren\u2019t most people. Look at your feet. They\u2019re wet, grace soaked. Jesus has washed your feet. He has washed the grimiest parts of your life.<\/p>\n<p>To accept grace is the vow to give it. You don\u2019t endorse the deeds of your offender when you forgive them. Jesus didn\u2019t endorse your sins by forgiving you. The grace-defined person still sends thieves to jail and expects the ex to pay child support. Grace sees the hurt full well. But it refuses to let hurts poison the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Where grace is lacking, bitterness abounds. Where grace abounds, forgiveness grows. So go ahead. Set your feet in the basin. Let the hands of God wipe away every dirty part of your life. Then look across the room and wash someone else\u2019s feet. \u00a0Let grace begin\u2014and continue\u2014in you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39891\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/unnamed-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=6a2f9c636d&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D6a2f9c636d%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775798206909000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1zMo3KJB1WgbHUeXiXIIkl\"><em>Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people keep a pot of anger on low boil. But you aren\u2019t most people. Look at your feet. They\u2019re wet, grace soaked. Jesus has washed your feet. He has washed the grimiest parts of your life.<\/p>\n<p>To accept grace is the vow to give it. You don\u2019t endorse the deeds of your offender when you forgive them. Jesus didn\u2019t endorse your sins by forgiving you. The grace-defined person still sends thieves to jail and expects the ex to pay child support. Grace sees the hurt full well. But it refuses to let hurts poison the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Where grace is lacking, bitterness abounds. Where grace abounds, forgiveness grows. So go ahead. Set your feet in the basin. Let the hands of God wipe away every dirty part of your life. Then look across the room and wash someone else\u2019s feet.  Let grace begin\u2014and continue\u2014in you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40099","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\/40099","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=40099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40102,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099\/revisions\/40102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}