Obstacles to grace are all those things that stop you from growing in your faith. Obstacles to grace are all those things that might have stopped you from coming on this Emmaus Walk. Five spiritual directors. Five talks on grace. Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.
Grace is the key to our Christian faith.
Yet David Seamands, a missionary to India and a pastor in Kentucky, says grace is the single hardest thing for Christians to grasp. I looked it up in the dictionary. As a young Christian I thought God wanted to give me things. Later I thought he wanted to give me a good life. Then I really thought he wanted to give me life itself.