"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not without effect."
So often I feel I am just too complicated. That the notions of my heart are just too deep, just too full. Too full of the ever present knowledge of both my sinful state and the brokenness of the world. Too full of the brightness of His grace in my own life, and the beauty of His creation.
A tiresome dance of dark and light, death and life, bitterness and forgiveness, sin and grace.
Yet His word resounds, and I try desperately to live this each day - that His grace to me was not without effect. That Jesus did not die in vain, that His spirit is transforming and renewing me each day. But the kicker that speaks so deeply to my longing heart is that Paul writes "By the grace of God, I am what I am". Paul too felt this battle between who he was and who he saw God making him to be - yet also could say with confidence that where he was at was ok in the context of God's amazing grace.
In the context of His grace I am already made whole. Though the war of sin rages and my heart feels the burden of change - I am His. Hallelujah, Amen.
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