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9-22-10 Do we take His grace for granted?



Peter Penrose has a song called Farther than your grace can reach.  The message is that nothing we do can take us “farther than your (His) grace can reach”.  That is such a true statement but, it leads me to the question of whether or not we take that for granted (much like we do many people in our lives).

Romans 6 gives us a word on this: What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! (NIV)

We think that sin is this or that, the major things; fornication, adultery, thievery, blaspheming God, murder, etc.  Yet, sin is anything that distracts us from God.

The closer we get to Him the more we should become aware of “little” sins that keep us from being like Him. 

Nothing ‘hides us from His eyes” and we “cannot fall or climb farther than (His) grace can reach” but that does not give us a license to do as we please.  As we “died” to sin and accepted Him as our Savior our purpose is to strive to be like Him; to show His love and mercy to those around us; to love with His love even those we consider unlovable; to forgive those we deem to have wronged us and pray for them.

I pray not to take Him and His blessings and grace for granted. I vow to try to be more like Him. I want to be dead to me so that I may be alive in Him.

At this writing He is kicking me about my mouth.  Nothing bad, just things that could have been left unsaid or said a different way.  And He is leading me to apologize.  I’ve done one so far and that person said I didn’t need to they were teasing me about what I said.  I told them it was more for God than for them because I knew they were teasing me. 

Still, I have to follow directions.  My mouth was not a good witness of the life I confess to lead and therefore I need to apologize.

Lord, please, never stop kicking me to bring to my attention things that are not like you that I need to change.  I don’t want to take your mercy for granted. I realize that I am but a mere human and therefore will make mistakes as I will not be perfect until the day I get to reside with you.  But, Lord, I do want to do my best day by day to grow to be more like you.  Thank you for your lessons in life.  I love you.
 
Melissa Going

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