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Chapter Three Amazing Grace: The Cross Gives Us Power to Soar

“One dark night in West Texas, I was heading back toward
our home base at Lubbock, when an unexpected fog set in all
over West Texas. The weather at nearby airports wasn’t any
better, and we barely had enough fuel to go all the way to a
good alternate airport. So I decided to make one attempt to
land at home before making the long run to the alternate.

We set up for an approach, using the Instrument Landing
System, following a very accurate radio signal that could take us down to two hundred feet above the runway. My problem was, the fog extended down to one hundred feet above the ground. The tower controller said that even the control tower cab was up in the fog. But the air was smooth, and we were able to “fly the beam” right down to the end of the runway, coming in very low yet still unable to see anything through
the fog. We came all the way down to the minimum altitude,
where the pilot must quickly decide to land (if the runway is
in sight) or climb back up (if the runway is not in sight). My
passengers were pretty quiet as we all peered into the gloom, hoping to see something and knowing we were very close to the ground. Just as I was about to give it up, there they were! The flashing strobe lights at the approach end of the runway pierced through the fog, and they showed us that
we were right on course. We slipped down over those lights
and then suddenly we could see the runway—right in front
of us. That night, I said some extra prayers of thankfulness
for those lights that burned through the fog. They shouldn’t have worked for us, but they did anyway.

That’s how grace is too—it shouldn’t work, but it does
anyway. One way to remember this is that G.R.A.C.E. spells
“God’s riches at Christ’s expense.” If you get this key point,
you are well on the way to gaining altitude in your spiritual
life. The fact that “heaven is a free gift” and that it cannot
be earned or merited by good works is the one central truth
of the New Testament that seems to separate those who
experience the new birth and those who are confused or put
off by it.”

Chapter 3 tells us that Grace shouldn’t work, but it really does. Chapter 4 explains that we are saved by “faith”, transferring your trust to Him.

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