Forward By Grace

When all you know is God's grace. And all you experience is His grace, first-hand, for you.

Because you are there. You are at that place of despair. In your own efforts, in your insurmountable circumstances, in your own self. You are at that place of despair that brings you to that place of knowing your need for grace.

Yes, it’s only there where you you can know His grace. As only the Lord God Almighty gives and shows and pours out to you. It’s there where His grace is everything. His gentle reminder, His constant presence, His forever faithfulness, His loving kindness. His grace. You know it is everything. For He gives you the grace to take your next breath, the grace to take your next step, the grace to take your next task. Forward, and not backward. Yes, always forward.

Grace does it. Undeserved merit does it. It takes you forward.

And you know His grace, that you must remain there, with your eyes looking up. With your heart broken open. With your mountains before you. You must remain there, where the deep, dark valleys loom impossible but your God calls possible because your heart remains His.

For He is enough.

And your going forward, by grace. Your doing the next thing, by grace. Is your breathing life, by grace. And Christ is all around you, all around your one life, all of it! Every time. Amen!

Because grace is all about going forward, forward into Him, where His life abounds, in you! Amen! Amazing grace!!

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"For from [Christ's] fullness we have all received, grace upon grace." - John 1:16