Sunday, April 18, 2021
There are fault-lines everywhere,
no more than in each of us.
Why then does God bless us with Grace?
2 Samuel 7:18
Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, ‘Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
1 Corinthians 15:10
By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
Words of Grace For Today
To live is good!
To live blessed by God is wonderful!
To live aware that all the good one can do is not from one own self, but possible only by the Holy Spirit working in and through one is most wonderful!
To live aware that God has brought us thus far by grace, making us what we are is to live with gratitude… and that is awesomely wonderful.
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Being aware of God’s blessings and grace does not relieve us of the necessities of working hard. This awareness drives us to work even harder to play our small parts in God’s Kingdom come for all people.
Hard work is sweet and wonderful, when one works for God’s purposes: to bring the blessings of God’s Kingdom to all people. Some would say it is the sweetest, most wonderful sweat of all life.
Even with such Grace prodigiously poured over us, we must wonder, God, ‘Why us?!’
Help us Lord! We are so far from your kingdom even though you have brought it here long ago.