Melted and Broken

"Involvement with people, especially the marginalized, must begin with a sense of God's grace. But not just God's grace to them, but his grace to me. I need to be melted and broken by grace. When I speak with someone who is an alcoholic or a single mother, or someone who's depressed or unemployed or unemployable, I must do so as a fellow sinner. We're all broken people in a broken world. If I do not understand this, then my good intentions will be patronizing. Anything I say will be heard as 'become like me.' Only as I'm daily struck by God's amazing grace to me...will my life and words point to Jesus as the Savior."Tim Chester