Hello again.
I’ve been occupied with life lessons lately and have lacked the perspective to write it all down. The perspective is coming, but slowly. So we’ll just revise if necessary. The main theme the Lord and I are working on these days is GRACE. Grace is now (in my mental dictionary) a descriptive word or another name for God. He is GRACE. He is the source of all grace. He gives grace because HE IS. You follow me? He knows all about sin and knows the complete effect it has had on each one of us, our families, our communities, our governments, our planet. He wants so much for us to choose Him and let Him cleanse us and wrap us up in a blanket of His grace. This blanket protects us from the harsh and painful realities of our broken world and provides healing for our bodies, hearts and minds. It allows us to move and participate in our lives and relationships. Our methods of insulating ourselves, however effective or not, impede our ability to move and participate in love. Whatever we hide behind-perfectionism, pride, food, drugs, alcohol, money, work, etc.-in someway impedes our ability to love. It is only through submission to Him that we are supplied with what is essential (what we are really craving) and it’s His free gift of grace that gives us the security we are seeking. Our life in this place is hard, there is no way around that. But whatever problems we have, it will be better when we come to Christ. Not because he removes our problems and makes everything just the way we want it, but because of His grace. Because He will provide for us exactly what we need to move through our circumstances. Him. His presence in our lives.
love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control
Can you think of any situation you are facing that would not be easier to endure if He was allowed access into your life to manifest these (His essential qualities) in you? I can’t. I love Him soooo much and I still struggle to let go of my false idols and fall into his arms. But the lesson for me right now is to let go and trust Him. Follow Him into the crapper if I have to and he will lead me out. If through the crapper we must go, then go we must. I don’t know why my all-powerful God uses the crapper as part of His plan for redemption. I think it wasn’t his first choice, but here we are and to debate it at this point would just be a stalling technique. So, let’s trust God and let Him surround us with His GRACE as we surrender all those things that really aren’t working. Let’s live this out with His GRACE and LOVE supernaturally released into our lives.
Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5: 20-21
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