So Easy

I find it so easy to fall into a mindset that I have to work for grace. I must do things when by deffinition it is given with out any conditions.

I keep thinking that I have to obey Christ to be saved. I have to be better. I have to do something.

But this is the changing power of Christ, we don't have to do a thing. God gives our redemption for free, he only askes that we follow him whereever he leads.

If we fall off the road, Jesus is always there calling us back and offering to continue the jorney. That is down right amazing! It is the power of God that changes people. It is the power of God to save people.

Makes me wonder where we get our ideas of of strengh!

God bless us,
God lead us,
God change our lives,
God work inside us,
God change the world.
Show us your way,
Show us your power!

I've been listening to JJ Heller recently and really liking the music you should check the music out.

Getting Better

It seems to me that things always get worse before they get better. Joseph is sold into slavery, put in prison. But thought the midst of God's plan that leads him into a place where he can be reunited with his family and save them from starvation.

Jesus had to die on the cross and I think all hope was lost for the apostles before Jesus appears to them and changes the face of history. Changes the lives of so many.

I guess it comes down to what Jesus says in the Garden of Gethsemane

Mark 14:36 “Abba,[a] Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” 

Blind Defense

"Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!" C.S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew

I wonder if we have pushed God out of our lives for so long that ingrained in us is the unwillingness to hear God. As if we assume that God can't speak to us because He is a mysterious person. Because he is beyond our understanding.

I wonder if we could right the wrong, and experience a world where we can hear God walking, where we can talk to him like a friend.

I think so, I've heard to many stories that say people have.

Anyways those are my thoughts.

God bless us,
God heal our land,
God be with all those that are hurting from painful loss.
God bring us closer to you
God live among us
God speak to us.
Everything is yours.

All God's

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
—Romans 15:13

This is the challenge I have for myself these days. To trust God for everything, realizing that he provides for us, not us providing for God.

I believe that sometimes we are temped to take more than what God has given us. Sometimes I think we are temped to worry about things that God has provided for.

God bless us
God lead us
God teach us to trust you with everything
God lead us to green pastures