During staff devotions this morning, we reflected for a few moments on the paradoxical intersection of justice and grace at the cross. As we work through the daily difficult work of finding restoration and reconciliation in community when hurt occurs, this continues to strike a chord. In a world that is hungry for 'justice' in the form of punishment, we find ourselves at the foot of the cross baffled that we do not bear the weight of our sin, but that Christ bore it for us.
Often I hear in Christian prayers "Lord, help us to be Christ to one another....". This is a calling that none of us is able to fulfill, but to which we must continue to strive each day. It's important that grace and forgiveness and reconciliation and restoration become a habit of our mind, heart, and body. If we choose otherwise, we become a community of 'un-grace' - (a term I first encountered in Philip Yancey's "What's so Amazing about Grace").
Yancey writes: "That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, "Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian."
When the world encounters Covenant Christian School, what story will it read? Will it encounter a colony of heaven? Thank God that we have the cross, where justice is intersected with grace to give us the strength to forgive and to restore!!!
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