If there’s a mountain anywhere to climb, we scale it.
If there’s a chasm some say can’t be spanned, we find a way to bridge it.
When we demand a new frontier, we harness all the ingenuity we have to launch deep probes of planets, moons and suns.
But there’s one goal we’ll never rise to conquer—how to reconcile a sinner to the Father.
Nothing in our repertoire responds to this persistent challenge. Effort will not make it happen; wisdom won’t achieve the goal. Diligence and ritual won’t bring the heavens closer.
Only from the heart of God could answers come that heal the world, atone for our disaster and disgrace, and offer us a future far beyond the galaxy. Only He who came from God to walk with us, and feel our pain, and mend our brokenness can do the hardest thing that ever was. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (Jn 1:14).
Grace came down, and grace abides. And only grace will lead us home.
Rejoice in love’s magnificent reality. And stay in grace.
—Bill Knott