Amazing Grace
Paul wrote of a higher righteousness that comes from God himself and never depends on our doings. Whenever we know that righteousness of God firsthand, it always changes our lives.
One man tells that one day he blundered into an affair with someone else’s wife. He was weak and vulnerable, and in his weakness he became involved with another woman. The guilt and wrong of what he had done against God, his family, and this woman and her husband were too much for the man to bear.
Finally, at great risk, the man decided he had to talk to the woman’s husband.
The husband came and sat quietly as the guilt-ridden man poured out the story of his adultery with his friend’s wife.
And the confessor reported that when he was through, he sat there ashamed and weeping, not knowing what to do, wondering what the betrayed husband might do.
The betrayed man got out of his chair, came around behind the desk and put his arms around the friend who had destroyed his family.
The two men wept for a long time.
The remorseful man concluded: "He could have killed me, but instead he did for me what nobody else had ever done in all my life. He graced me. He affirmed me, and it changed my life.