No forced slaves in God's kingdom!

Another amazing aspect of God's nature with respect to His dealings with man is the fact that God can be grieved. The fact that the Holy Spirit is grieved when we behave wrongly, is very striking. It shows us that the Spirit of God must have been speaking to us and we continued to disobey or failed to see our obstinacy. A parent is not grieved when his child disobeys the first time. But persistent failures after constant reminders is the prime reason for grief. The parent must have punished enough and now he is grieving because the child has not changed his ways. The fact that God could also grieve like that, speaks volumes about God.
This also shows something surprising to some of us who have not understood grace in a greater manner. Grace does not mean that all of us will stand before Him unashamedly when He comes. Grace means that we have all been offered help. Grace does not mean that God will take over our lives without our cooperation. Of course He can, but He will not. No one is a forced slave in the kingdom of God. Grace means that God will continue to remind us and offer to help us. But there is always be a final day for all of us. We have to decide to become partakers of the grace of God. (Phi 1:7) There is a line which God will not cross. There are things that grace cannot do. Or else it not be grace. Yes we may finally scrape through. But not in a way that can glorify God. Our failures should not be used to enhance God's glory. That is a twisted way of witnessing to the grace of God.