week nine

there are those who say Lord I'll go. there are those who say Lord, I'm scared. there are those say Lord, I'm inadequate. and there are those who say Lord, I'll go but I'm scared, inadequate, and full of shame.
but my Lord replies, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."

Grace...

just when I think I have all the puzzle pieces put together to make a beautiful picture my Lord shatters it into a million pieces saying to me "there, now maybe you can to see me." After being broken over and over, beaten with my own selfish pride I begin to understand just how much I need His grace. What is pride? I used to think there was only one shade. Apparently it comes in many shades- tailored to perfection by the enemy to manifest itself quietly into my character. Standing broken without answers before Him I come to a more accurate definition of myself.

Paul writes, "Because it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith; not by anything of your own, but by a gift from God; not by anything that you have done, so that nobody can claim the credit."

Brennan Manning quotes in his book, The Ragamuffin Gospel,"' The difference between faith as "belief in something that may or may not exist" and faith as "trusting in God" is enormous." The first is a matter of the head, the second a matter of the heart. The first can leave us unchanged; the second intrinsically brings change.'"



i move forward persistently in search of humility.