"Grace is costly because it compels a man to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is grace because Jesus says: 'My yoke is easy and my burden is light.'"
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A Testament of Freedom
Grace is boundless because it is bound. Slavery to Jesus is infinite freedom. Freedom sought elsewhere is infinite slavery. It is difficult and heavy because it involves saying, "No" to one's self in submission to another. It is easy and light because the One to whom it binds itself is the only free agent in all of creation.
If you are bound to Jesus, you are free. But you are not free from being bound. If you are free in Christ, you are not free to be out of Christ. To be free in Jesus is to be bound to Him. To be free from Jesus is to be bound for destruction. Grace requires you to draw from just one account, but when you do, you discover it is an inexhaustible treasury of pleasure forevermore.
Psalm 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
The path of life can only be safely traversed by being bound to Jesus, but if you're bound to Him, you're also bound for a place where delight dwells and fullness finds its source. If you are holding His right hand, you are experiencing joy and pleasure without measure now and forever, world without end, amen.
I am free because I'm bound
I am bound for heavens gate
Where my feet will stand on holy ground
I am bound for glory
- Vertical Worship, Bound For Glory
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