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Lavish grace



(No, I didn't either bake or ice this cake! My daughter's birthday cake- with the image of her favorite cat!)


His grace is lavish.  It is described as having been ‘lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding’ (Ephesians 1.8).  He knows what he’s doing. 
Have you ever baked a cake that didn’t quite turn out as you hoped?  Cracks or craters.  Hollows.  Dryness.  Crumbling.  Over-browned.  Sunken in the middle.
That is us.  We are flawed and inadequate.
God applies his grace lavishly to us, as we may spread delicious buttery frosting extra-thickly over a not-so perfect cake.  The icing fills the craters and crevices and cracks, balances the dry and crumbly texture, covers over the over-cooked unsightly brown surface…

Next time you are obsessing over your mistakes and weaknesses and foot-in-the-mouth moments, as I frequently do, remember Gods lavish grace, which covers over and accounts for all the things he knows are there but he still loves us dearly.
And whats more to top it off he has transposed the image of his perfect son, Jesus, upon us, his righteousness 'imputed' to us (Romans 4.24).





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