Come As You Are
There is nothing that can separate you from the love of God.
There are consequences to our sin but you need to know deep in your heart that there is no sin that is too bad, and no choice that can’t be redeemed.
This notion that we have to clean up our life before we approach the throne is a lie.
Come as you are.
There is no broken or mistake that God can not redeem.
Wrestling With Forgiveness
These past four years have challenged me to dig deeper into the practice of forgiving. What I noticed was that as I was walking through the layers of hurt and forgiveness, I began to try to find logical reasons of justification for the actions of the people who hurt me.
What God has taught me through this season is that I do not have to find reasons of justification for the actions of people that hurt me. I am not always called to reconcile those relationships but I am called to forgive.
Gifts Bestowed by Grace, Part 2
“Over time, and I believe unintentionally, we’ve created our own criteria for those who we believe can best fulfill the will of God.” These words were the catalyst to my blog posts Gifts Bestowed By Grace Part 1 & 2
If we only coddle those we deem “qualified” based on our human measuring sticks, we miss the “least of these”. Those people Jesus himself declared qualified and justified through his sacrifice on the cross and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Gifts Bestowed by Grace
“Over time, and I believe unintentionally, we’ve created our own criteria for those who we believe can best fulfill the will of God.” If our spiritual gifts are given to us in full measure by the grace of God, then who are we to apply worldly standards to Godly gifts? (Part 1 of 2)