Grace

If you are a Christian, you have probably heard the following verse a lot.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; 

it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."

Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV)

But KNOWING about GRACE and FEELING that GRACE are two very different things. 

At least it is for me. God has been teaching me and reminding me to ...

LIVE IN HIS GRACE.

For me, that manifests itself as forgiving myself like Jesus forgives me.

 Over and over and over and over and OVER!  

Listen to the same verses in The Message version of the Bible.

"Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work.  All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves."

Ephesians 2:8-9 (The Message)

 In her keynote address for the 2014 Allume Conference, Logan Wolfram said 

" How easily we forget the value that has been attributed to us as masterpieces of the Kingdom of Heaven. As creations of the God of the universe, our identity lies not in who has seen or affirmed our worth, but in the reputation of the master who has made us."

I sooooo love that! I do not have to perform to earn my salvation or to earn the love of Christ. 

That is Grace.