Choosing to See

But it's because you're not there yet. It's because you're still failing at that. It's because you can't keep up, or make it, or fit in.

That you know your need. For grace.

And it's because you stumble and fall. It's because you tend to hold your head up high. It's because you can't forgive, or love, or remain calm.

That you know your dire need, and you see your fallen state. If you choose to.

If you would choose to look within yourself, where you would see such selfish motives, such desperation, and such fear, all from within you. Where you would know your great, insurmountable need. It's a need for rescuing. It's a need to choose life, instead of all that death. And it's a need you must choose to see.

For choosing to see is choosing life. Every time.

Because seeing your need for grace allows for surrender. It allows for a giving-in to a higher Authority, to the One Who gives and breathes and makes life. It's a letting-go to acknowledge your need, that you cannot do anything to meet it, and only Christ can. So that your complete surrender is your choosing Christ and receiving grace.

And God is glorified then. In and through your life, He is glorified.

Because of your weaknesses. Through your lackings. In spite of your short-comings. For Christ reigns in you, and grace covers over you. And all the glory is given to God!

Where grace is given and received. Freely, unmerited, not because you deserve it, but because you need it.

So that receiving the grace given to you, the moment you believe Christ's work on the Cross was and is enough to make you holy and righteous before Almighty God. And receiving the grace given to you, each and every day you are alive, from the moment you wake to the moment you close your eyes again. Is choosing to see. And that is choosing life!

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“…Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live” - Deuteronomy 30:19

"But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere." - 2 Corinthians 2:14