Grace-living

I made of list of things I should or could be doing.

BUT....I'm bored with all that.  I do but I don't want to do any of it.  Is it about what I want or is there something You want?  Sometimes grace gives me too much freedom that I don't know how to live in it.  

How do I live in Your grace today? 

“You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; 

you have fallen from grace.”

Galatians 5:4 

So don't try to be justified by the law.  Stop trying to be okay (aiming for some degree of perfection) as a means of feeling like you're okay.  Being perfect does not work because there is no way any of us can do what true perfection demands.  So stop!  Just stop. 

Before you turn around and start picking up your nonsense again...take heed of what a life lived in grace means ...like today, right now.

To live in grace we must first step away from our tendency to make ourselves feel okay.  This means we may have to sit with that terrible feeling of boredom or anxiety or restlessness until it passes through our system or God tells us to calmly do something.  But we must not try to run from it, because it is a part of our suffering on earth to feel how bad things could have been in order to rejoice in how good things truly are thanks to Jesus!  This life will show us bad things for a reason, and instead of fearing those feelings we must learn to sit in them with God as we are being trained to live in His grace. 

So you feel bored? Anxious? Overwhelmed? Confused? 

Don't try to do something to feel okay. 

Don't fall from grace. 

(Galatians 5:4)

To live in grace often means to feel why we need Him so much.  We are useless, void, empty, and pathetic without Him.  We are nothing without Christ.  When we feel those terrible feelings come over us, let them lead you into His grace.  

Be taken in by your good Father for an epic embrace.

“For you were called to be free, brothers; 

only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, 

but serve one another through love. 

For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 5:13-14 

What matters is faith working through love...

Evidence of a life lived in grace is a life lived in loving others. 

Today.

Right now.

Are you living in grace? 

Jmegrey