Devotional

Feeling thankful that I have worked on my spirituality

all these years.

 Helps to feel the light in the dark.

Sharing something I read this morning.

And read again. And again.

It made my heart flutter a little...

maybe it will for you too?

"The Heart Surgeon"

"Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest,

removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain -

and replacing it with His own.

Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change.

Do you clean up so He can accept you?

No, He accepts you and begins cleaning you up.

His dream isn't just to get you into Heaven 

but to get heaven into you.

What a difference this makes!

Can't forgive your enemy? Can't face tomorrow? Can't forgive your past?

Christ can, and He is on the move,

aggressively budging you from grace-less to grace-shaped living.

The gift-given giving gifts.

Forgiven people forgiving people.

Deep sighs of relief.

Stumbles aplenty but despair seldom.

Grace is everything Jesus.

Grace lives because He does, works because He works,

and matters because He matters.

He placed a term limit on sin and danced a victory jig in the graveyard.

To be saved by grace is to be saved by Him-

not by an idea, doctrine, creed, or church membership,

but by Jesus Himself,

who will sweep into Heaven anyone 

who so much as gives Him the nod."

                                                

~God is With You  Max Lucado~

xoxo

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