Good morning! How are we faithing? It amazes me sometimes how the gospel gets distorted. It gets all twisted up over our culture, our past, our conceptions and misconceptions. We all have friends that are pessimistic and some who are optimistic. We know people who have been hurt badly by family, exes, friends, bosses etc. We know some who use the Gospel for gain or for some weird way to justify being judgmental over the hurt they feel. I thank God for the grace we are under and it causes me to grant the benefit of doubt because I am so messed up. The Gospel has made me realize that just because someone in my past did thus and so that not every one else will do the same. It also grants wisdom to recognize many times if someone is stepping on me but forgiveness is required anyways because grace is why I am forgiven. Trust is a big issue. Many a fight has been over something said or done that was innocent or or at least naively done. We tend to hold onto that hurt and animosity while the offender walks away unaware of any infraction. This is where forgiveness and grace comes in. Not only is it available for known infractions committed but also for the unknown. Heck man, I've done and said things innocently and caught grief over them. I've also done some things that seemed like nothing but smacked some one else up side the head. This is where grace and forgiveness comes in. If we know we can do those things that way then it stands to reason someone else can do them to us in the same manner. Grace requires forgiveness. Love requires the benefit of a doubt. Wisdom requires we pause for emotion identification before we act. Just think abut this...
Rom 5:15-21
But the free gift is not also like the deviation. For if by the deviation of the one the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ, did abound to the many. And the gift is not as by one having sinned; for indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many deviations to justification. For if by the deviation of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who are receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall rule in life by the One, Jesus Christ. So then, as through one deviation it was toward all men to condemnation, so also through one righteous act toward all men to justification of life. For as through the one man's disobedience the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many shall be constituted righteous. But Law came in besides, that the deviation might abound. But where sin abounded, grace much more abounded, that as sin ruled in death, so also grace might rule through righteousness to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
remember the Jeff Pratt family...remember our leaders/Pastors and families...
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for wisdom found in your Word. Lord, forgive us when we judge unjustly. Forgive our emotional boundaries that cause us to make bad choices. We ask for wisdom and courage to stand on this grace you give and to trust in your ways. Help us see truth through your eyes and not our fleshly ones. Guide us in all our endeavors so we shine for you! In Jesus name, amen
Rom 5:15-21
But the free gift is not also like the deviation. For if by the deviation of the one the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ, did abound to the many. And the gift is not as by one having sinned; for indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many deviations to justification. For if by the deviation of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who are receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall rule in life by the One, Jesus Christ. So then, as through one deviation it was toward all men to condemnation, so also through one righteous act toward all men to justification of life. For as through the one man's disobedience the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many shall be constituted righteous. But Law came in besides, that the deviation might abound. But where sin abounded, grace much more abounded, that as sin ruled in death, so also grace might rule through righteousness to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
remember the Jeff Pratt family...remember our leaders/Pastors and families...
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for wisdom found in your Word. Lord, forgive us when we judge unjustly. Forgive our emotional boundaries that cause us to make bad choices. We ask for wisdom and courage to stand on this grace you give and to trust in your ways. Help us see truth through your eyes and not our fleshly ones. Guide us in all our endeavors so we shine for you! In Jesus name, amen
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