Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life

by W. David O. Taylor

“We are forbidden,” Barth writes, “to take sin more seriously than grace, or even as seriously as grace.”18 Why? Because God in Christ does not take sin more seriously than grace, even if it remains true that God takes sin with deadly seriousness. We can be honest to God about the best and worst parts of our human condition, because we know that the grace of God precedes our honest confessions, the grace of God undergirds our honest thanksgivings, and the grace of God follows our honest laments.