Devastating Grace, How Sweet the Sound

We sing about amazing grace. But before grace is amazing, it's devastating.Grace, the message and work of Jesus, devastates our pride.Grace devastates all our attempts to earn favor with God and others. Grace is a wrecking ball to the foundation of self-effort that we've built our lives upon.Grace destroys you—the old you. For there to be new life, there must be a death. Grace brings that death in order to bring that life.Devastating Grace, how frightening the sound. Once we experience that, we're ready to really sing.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,That saved a wretch like me.I once was lost, but now am foundWas blind, but now, I see.