In my often confused, finite brain I had been looking at grace all wrong.
Grace in my mind had been the thing that rescues me when I don't get it right. The thing I hadn't really thought of, was that I never get things right.
God's grace gives us the ability to do what's right. Without it, doing right is impossible. "All our righteousness is as filthy rags."
Without Him there is nothing.
In Him, there is Life and Peace.
a good reminder for us all about an aspect of grace we cannot do without and do not think about enough, and a good lesson to keep learning.
2 Corinthians 9:8
2 Corinthians 12:9
Ephesians 3:7
Grace-the power to do what I cannot.
thanks, benjamin.
i hadn't thought of it in quite those terms, and i need/love reminders of grace no matter the terms.
Thanks Benjamin. I like 1 Peter 1:2.
Which reads in part:
May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.(NASB)
or
yours in abundance. (NIV)
I want to know His grace in fullest measure.
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