The Adventure Led Me Here

“‘It is finished.’ May those words land on your bones for the nights when fear tells you the cross was a beginning & you must finish grace.”  —  Jon Acuff  The cross was enough.When grace tiptoes in with hushed footsteps during raging storms, sometimes we don't hear its gentle whispers to remind us of the victory found on the cross. Expectations and guilt thunder in, chanting our failures and shortcomings. 'Try harder. Be better. Get your act together.' The cross is enough. The cross will be enough. Years ago, every messy, broken part of our lives was nailed to a simple wooden cross and replaced with grace. So often we try to take the brokenness off of the cross, clinging onto the remnants. It is finished' means exactly that. There is completion, and the debt is paid, our guilt erased. Grace isn't carefully budgeted and couponed out; it is extravagant and never-ending. Grace is sufficient, even in our weaknesses, struggles, and pain