The Cost of Grace

If there is anybody who hopes that in Christ the real danger spots are rendered harmless, he or she must first come to terms with the severity of God's law. In other words, grace is not cheap. Cost our Lord is life. Can you think of anything that is more costly than that for which a man must pay on a cross? So if we want peace, we have to pay that price without that death to the lower life, not the death to our higher life. Without that death to our lower life, there is no peace. There is only fear. And we live just the kind of a half existence.