If another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. (Galatians 6:1 NLT)
If really we have come to any kind of spiritual appreciation of the greatness
of the thing the Lord has done for us in the Cross – brought us into His own
fullness and subdued all our enemies – we cannot be a mean people, we cannot be
small and petty, we must be generous because of the greatness of our position in
Christ. It simply works out in this way: the larger our apprehension of what the
Lord has done for us in His Cross, the more generous we ought to be to others –
the more longsuffering and forbearing, the less ready to quickly return evil for
evil, more ready to bear and to suffer wrong. It must be a very limited
apprehension of Calvary when we very swiftly snap at one another for things that
we feel are wrong. There has to be a very great deal of overlooking, a great
deal of generosity, grace has got to triumph by reason of the exalted spiritual
place: the elevation of our position in the heavenlies. These cities must rule,
grace must predominate in the heavenlies.
There is provision made for mistakes, even when you get to the heavenlies in
Christ. It does not look like sinless perfection. It does not look as though all
the faults and the mistakes and the blunders and the injuries have ended, even
when you come into the heavenlies. It looks as though grace will still be
necessary to bear with things that go wrong. There must be some wrong, then,
even when we get spiritually to that position. The Lord says that there is grace
for that.