journal/GRACE-A GIFT FROM GOD

Today-DEAR LORD-Help us to be aware of the NEED for grace in our lives-and the GIFT of grace
you bestow upon us

HELP US to be aware of what I am doing and not doing-thinking and not thinking-and feeling and not feeling-ALL in your name OH LORD

For we NEED your GRACE to live fruitful lives

it is a GREAT DAY to be ALIVE in your LOVE-and in THE GIFT of GRACE you bestow on us

LOVE YOU ALL!










WITNESS




8-19-13




GRACE---A GIFT FROM GOD




Are you living
In a state of grace


If so
Say, “thank you”
Because grace is defined
As a gift
Given freely by God
To his believers


It is
The undeserved love and salvation
Given to us freely by God
It is nothing
That we can ever earn


If you are a loving parent
Think about it
There is nothing that you would not do for your child
If it is for their own good


It is the same way
With God for us
There is nothing he would not do for us
That is---if it is for our own good


Because we are his children
And he loves us INFINITELY


In the 15^th chapter
Of Saint Luke’s Gospel
Luke tells us 3 such stories about Jesus


He tells us the story
Of a shepherd with 100 sheep
One becomes lost
And the shepherd leaves the heard---the other 99
To go and find that one lost sheep


Jesus tells us,
“There will be more rejoicing
In heaven
Over one sinner that repents
Than over 99 persons
Who do not need to repent” Luke 15:7


God loves EACH and EVERY ONE of us


Then Jesus tells the story
Of a woman with10 coins
But she loses one


She does not worry
About the 9 that she has
But overturns the house---looking everywhere
Until she finds that one lost coin


Then she calls her friends and neighbors
And says,


“Rejoice with me
I have found my lost coin” Luke 15:9


It is the same way with us
Who are lost
Along life’s highway


God will look for us
Until she finds us


And he will find us---that is
Unless we don’t want to be found


Then Jesus continued with one more story
About a lost son
And his loving father


He tells the story
About his youngest son
Who has run away from home
And squandered everything
On wine and women


And to the older son---who has become jealous
Because, his father, receives the younger son openly
He says,


“You are always with me
And everything I have is yours
Because this brother of yours was dead
And is alive again
He was lost and is found” Luke 15:31 & 32


It is the same way with us
We should be happy
When one of our brothers or sisters
Comes home to God


God’s grace
A gift given freely to us by God
All we can do is be gracious
And say, “thank you”


“For it is by grace
That you have been saved
Through faith---and this not from ourselves
So that no one can boast” Romans 2:8 & 9


We say, “thank you Lord”
For this gift of your grace


THE GREATEST GIFT THAT WE WILL EVER RECEIVE


Robert P. Wallman
12-15-11




Ps WITNESS 8-19-13





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