Unearned Rest

 You cannot "unearn" what you did not earn. 

You cannot "undeserve" what you did not, do not, and will not deserve. 

You cannot redefine what you did not define. 

You cannot purpose what you did not create. 

Let's break this down, shall we? 

Our salvation cannot be "unearned," because we did not earn it. Same with love. 

We cannot "undeserve" our salvation, our every day filth undeserving of that which we did not, and will never, deserve in the first place.

These things are called grace. It is unmerited, unearned, undeserved, and it is thrust upon us by a Living and Infinite God who justly must rend us with His holy wrath, but instead poured out his radical grace upon an unmeriting, unearning, undeserving race of evil things that deny and defy his state of Holiness at every turn.

We hated Him, and He loved his with the blood of His Son.

As for definition, we cannot redefine ourselves, find ourselves, discover ourselves, name ourselves, purpose ourselves, decide for ourselves, identify ourselves, recreate ourselves, when we did not in the first place create ourselves.  If we did not create ourselves, how then could we recreate ourselves?  Is it not the Potter who decides the path and destiny and definition of the clay, not the Potter who defines and identifies and beautifies and purposes the clay?  

So then, the same grace granted upon an unmeriting people is the same grace given to a foolish lump of clay defying the Potter.  It is only by His grace that we are not smashed upon the floor.  Instead, it is equally by His grace that we are smashed upon the Rock, and remade in the image of our Savior.  It is equally by His grace that we, created lumps of clay, shaped by the Potter, can rest in the hands of the Creator, as the same hands which molded us and defined us have also purposed us.