When Christ is my hope, he becomes the one thing in which I have confidence. I act on his wisdom and bank on his grace. I trust his promises and I rely on his presence. And I pursue all the good things that he has promised me simply because I trust him. So, I am not manipulating, controlling, or threatening my way through life to get what I want, because I have found what I want in Christ. He is my hope.
Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.
The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness ; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.
Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.
Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.
Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.
How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?
Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.
True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
