Precious Grace

May I never forget that I am sinner saved by grace. I would rather keep struggling than to overcome these trials and temptations and somehow think that it was because of my own will power and determination.  May the Lord remind me daily that all glory belongs to Him!

 Romans 7:21-25
21So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

2 Corinthians 12:8-10
8Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

When the Guilt is Gone

The guilt is gone. My own attempts at righteousness have failed. If He's going to seperate the sheep from the goats, well I'm a goat. There's just no other way to say it. I'm a sinner saved by the grace of Christ. He has given me life and all I want to do is give it back to Him. I've finally surrendered. I've laid all the guilt and the shame at the foot of the cross. I've laid all of my desires, dreams and expectations there as well. This not my home and with the strength of Christ I journey on toward my final destination, my heavenly home. Life is so daily now. I approach each day as an opportunity to show His love to others. It's not about what I can do for the Lord, but what the Lord can do through me. All responsibility is His. His yoke really is easy and His burden really is light.