Humility For Grace.

But you step out of grace, out of your receiving grace, out of your seeing God's grace, for you.

It happens in that moment you feel you've failed, you feel you've stumbled, according to your own expectations. And you feel you could have. Done better. That you step out of grace.

Because your choice to remain in your discouragement with yourself, at your poor performance, at your lack-of, is really your choice to step out of grace, and into self-righteousness, as though you have the ability to make yourself right, or wrong. As though it is up to you.

When it was and is up to Christ alone, all along, Who chose to die to make you right, and remove your wrong. It was never your doing. It was all Christ. He took your old life to the grave, and He raised you up to newness of life, in Him. It was all Christ's doing. Your receiving Christ, your receiving grace, starting with your humility to accept Christ's work alone as being enough to save you. It is all Christ’s work.

Yes, the willingness of humility. The willingness to receive the fullness of Christ, and the healing power of His grace.

Humility for grace, and grace for healing. Every time.

For it's true, God doesn't expect from you, your performance, or your work, or your effort. God doesn't expect your success. There is nothing you could do to earn His favour. Nothing. He expects nothing from you. Instead, He gave everything for you, to give you life!

Because God simply expects to want, to have, you. As you are.

And because He longs to give grace, to you, He waits. He waits for you, in humility, to come to Him.

In your willingness to be healed Christ's way. By grace.

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For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite." - Isaiah 57:15

"He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way." - Psalm 25:9

"Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool." - Isaiah 1:18