Grave cloths are smelly, dirty rough etc, but Jesus said loose him and let him go. Many have been saved but "habits" still keep them bound.
The only way they can be free is have people love them enough to help them remove the grace cloths. Those who love people with grave cloths often get criticized.
But grace is not just extravagant but promiscuous....it often goes to unlikely, unreligious places.
Grace is never ashamed of identifying with people with grave cloths, in a bid to help them get off the grave cloths.
The truth is that it takes the uncommon love of others to get the grave cloths on you off you.
Identify with those people that have been revived by Jesus but they still appear broken in their attitude, character, etc.
Grace operates with uncommon love. We desert God many times but God via his grave keeps buying us back... redeeming us.
Underneath the mess you visibly see on people, there is a message on the inside of them, and you can only get at the message if you help them remove their grave cloths.
Jesus identified with the woman with the issue of blood, he identified with the woman caught in adultery, he identified with Zacheus, he gave his place to barabas and identified with thief that got crucified with him on the cross.
Jesus is a master at helping people remove their grave cloths. Do not be a master at judging people, rather be a people committed to helping others remove their grave cloths.
They said this, testing him, that they might have some reason to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger, as though he did not hear them. So when they kept on asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her”. And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. John 8:6-8
Rather than join the accusers to destroy the woman, Jesus simply helped her remove her grave cloths.
And he who had died came out, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and with his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go”. John 11:44
Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. Matthew 7:1
This is the message of "promiscuous Grace", a companion of Extravagant Grace.
Whatever might have been making you shed secret tears, making you hide yourself from your peers and making you condem yourself would give way today in Jesus name.
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