The Grace Place

If the Lord’s grace was inadequate to cover any portion of your past, present, or future sin; you would be without hope; Calvary REALLY DID cover it all. You don’t have to fix anything, earn anything, or prove anything in order to abide in His grace right now and for every minute for the rest of your existence, which is eternal because of Him. 

You can give up the fear-push to obey, the “If I don’t get my act together and start doing things right something terrible is going to happen to me and I’ll deserve it” dynamic. You can give that up completely and just revel in His grace. The backwash of such grace (of really believing it and the wonderful freedom of living in it) is incredible love and gratitude for Him who purchased this freedom for You at great cost. This is the grace place; the source from whence true obedience can flow.

Discipline and obedience seem to be restrictive things but in truth, they deepen your capacity to experience joy.  Embrace discipline, revel in obedience; and thus you can prepare a deeper well for joy to fill.  However, because you have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and live in His grace, joy will overtake you whether you prepare or not.  Rest in this promise, rest in this sure fact; sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  

Isaiah 35