This past summer we took a vacation to the mountains. We have been to the mountains many times, and now I understand my mother better. We went to the mountains with my parents, and mom said, "I like the flat country better". So do I! Can we do something so much, that we overlook what we have?
The highlight of our trips anymore, are the audio books that Pat picks from the library. This last trip we had The Walk To Grace. It was an excellent listen. Just a short synopsis: After the subject had lost his wife, and business, he started to walk from Seattle to Key West. Along his journey he met, and spent time with different people, joining them on their walk to grace. What is grace?
Isaiah 9:6 says "and the government shall be upon His shoulder." Until Jesus went to the Cross, the government of Israel ( the church then) ; was the Law, but when He died on the Cross, and fulfilled the law, then Grace became the government of the church. How do we learn about Grace?
If you have noticed I haven't been writing as much as I have in the past. I've been on a walk to grace. Have I arrived? No, it's a journey, and we all are on it. Knowing grace can only be experienced, when I am struggling with sin!
Yesterday morning the song in my heart was "At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light, and the burdens of my heart rolled away." Hmm... and the burdens of my heart rolled away? If the burdens of my heart rolled away, why such a struggle with a sin I had victory over for many years of my life. I asked The Lord why. "You were living in law, not grace. Remember my yoke is easy".
We hear songs and sermons, titled It's all about you Jesus, and the majority of us pull our boots up to our thighs, and get ready to "GO TO WORK FOR JESUS"! God only knows He can't possibly do it on his own! It's exactly where I found myself, and the harder I tried, the worse the sin became. When it gets so bad the we cry out "HELP", only then, will He help. Just like Paul, we also have to go through a Romans 7 experience: "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Romans 7:24 (KJV) The instant he cries "Who" he is calling upon the person, Jesus, and is seeking His help for his situation, and doing it in faith. For The Word says how can you cry to God, if you don't believe there is a God.
Just like going to the mountains, so is our journey of Grace, all of the ups and downs, all of the hard work we think He wants us to do, but the solution is still the same "Faith"!
So next time you feel like a comedian and you want to "Get-r-done"! it would be better to take off your spiritual boots and rest in Jesus, He already "Did it all"; because when we get-r-done, in a matter of time, it will become undone.
The highlight of our trips anymore, are the audio books that Pat picks from the library. This last trip we had The Walk To Grace. It was an excellent listen. Just a short synopsis: After the subject had lost his wife, and business, he started to walk from Seattle to Key West. Along his journey he met, and spent time with different people, joining them on their walk to grace. What is grace?
Isaiah 9:6 says "and the government shall be upon His shoulder." Until Jesus went to the Cross, the government of Israel ( the church then) ; was the Law, but when He died on the Cross, and fulfilled the law, then Grace became the government of the church. How do we learn about Grace?
If you have noticed I haven't been writing as much as I have in the past. I've been on a walk to grace. Have I arrived? No, it's a journey, and we all are on it. Knowing grace can only be experienced, when I am struggling with sin!
Yesterday morning the song in my heart was "At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light, and the burdens of my heart rolled away." Hmm... and the burdens of my heart rolled away? If the burdens of my heart rolled away, why such a struggle with a sin I had victory over for many years of my life. I asked The Lord why. "You were living in law, not grace. Remember my yoke is easy".
We hear songs and sermons, titled It's all about you Jesus, and the majority of us pull our boots up to our thighs, and get ready to "GO TO WORK FOR JESUS"! God only knows He can't possibly do it on his own! It's exactly where I found myself, and the harder I tried, the worse the sin became. When it gets so bad the we cry out "HELP", only then, will He help. Just like Paul, we also have to go through a Romans 7 experience: "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Romans 7:24 (KJV) The instant he cries "Who" he is calling upon the person, Jesus, and is seeking His help for his situation, and doing it in faith. For The Word says how can you cry to God, if you don't believe there is a God.
Just like going to the mountains, so is our journey of Grace, all of the ups and downs, all of the hard work we think He wants us to do, but the solution is still the same "Faith"!
So next time you feel like a comedian and you want to "Get-r-done"! it would be better to take off your spiritual boots and rest in Jesus, He already "Did it all"; because when we get-r-done, in a matter of time, it will become undone.
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