You Don’t Pay For It

Being justified freely by his grace — Rom. 3:24

True story. Two pastors were on their way to Atlanta, GA. for a Christian mens gathering. One of them had never been in the south before. After staying in a motel overnight, they stopped at a nearby restaurant for breakfast. When their meal was delivered, the pastor who had never been south before saw this white, mushy looking stuff on his plate. When the waitress came by again he asked her what it was. “Grits”, she replied. “Ma’m I didn’t order it and I’m not paying for it”. “Sir, down here you don’t order it and you don’t pay for it, you just get it.”

How like the grace of God! You don’t pay for it… you just get it!

As Romans 4:4 says, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.”