daily prayer

          Good morning! How are we faithing? We have talked many times about "earning" salvation. We have gone over this faith of grace and how it all works. It is just plain humbling and glorious when you sit still and remember the stuff you've done and how Jesus forgives those things unconditionally. The cost is that when you accept that grace, you find yourself burdened with a desire to do better. A new desire to live upright. A desire to seek out the things of God but none of those things earn that salvation. Armed with that realization we can press on in our life even though it can be wrought with pain and anguish. This life also offers pleasures that we couldn't have imagined before Christ. For me, it's the wonderment of nature, the giggles of little kids, the sound of a race car on tilt.  What makes you stop in wonderment? What things awe you? The things in you that God designed and that the enemy tries to twists can be put in there right place. That motorcycle you love, where do you think that ability work and or ride them comes from? Some people simply cant work or ride them, why? Working with wood, some are artists and some cant use a toothpick, why? These things make me sit back in wonderment of Jesus and how he could come, sacrifice for us, love us and save such a diverse lot that we are. When we accept that gift and our eyes begin to open to the glory of God and the things he has provided for us, even though the enemy has distorted and perverted them we start to see where we were and why we got away. Don't fall back into those prior ways out of ease because Jesus saved us from them. Just think about this today...



Gal 5:1-6
  Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.   Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.   For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.   Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
  For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
  For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.


Heavenly Father,
  Thank you for your grace that saves me. Lord, we want to know you more. We want to see things as they are without the distortion brought by the enemy. Help us see with your eyes so we can be effective witnesses to your love and grace. Lord, convince us and convict us in your ways, in Jesus name, amen