Grace Abound more!

New King James Version
Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more….Roman’s 5:4

I’ve seen and learned a lot in my years. I’ve been taught by a great many people, famous and common. I’ve study and searched scriptures for years and still know there is more to go. And the only thing that revealed itself to me is that ALL of us sin and even practice some kind of sin and none of us are successful no matter how much we preach, pray , fast, or study. Every single person, denomination, or Leader sooner or later falls to sin in some matter. If you are against fornication, you fall to lust, if you are against homosexuality, you fall to judgment, if you are against lies, you fall to envy in your life. Somewhere in all of our lives, you have one form of sin or another. Even the very fact that most of all honor False gods by calling the days of the week Monday, Tuesday, Wed..( most don’t even know that these days are a form of sin). These names are given by men to honor False gods, even the months of the year, and so are the names of the planets and every day you call on these names you are giving honor to these gods because Yahweh never gave those names. Or even the very shoes in your closet “Nike” which is named after a false god, even the very logo of Nike is a sin just like it would be to wear a witch logo. Then if you really want to get technical ..even by God’s own rules of the “Law of first mention”…you can’t change the symbol of the Cross into something about God because the symbol was formed long before Christ ever died and is a pagan symbol, which God has warned us never to use totems or symbols and yet today, most Christian wear the symbol as if it’s God..when it isn’t..it is and always will be just the instrument used to Kill the Son of man.

I could go on and on about million things that make every single Christ-follower a hypocrite( even myself)in one way or another and all it would do is open up yet another one. The bottom line is that the only Perfect Man already left over 2000 years ago and yet even he had to become SIN before he initially died to give us all a chance at Salvation. He did this because God saw and realized that it is impossible for man to obey a list of rules in their life and not fall short in them somewhere and at sometime because we are imperfect and born with this dysfunction and were in need of Grace more than rules. We all need to start there because any other place only makes us a liar or hypocrite in some way or another.

When we have no strength left…Only then will we see His!

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
Psalm 73:26

Pain is so ever present in all of our lives. We go through seasons of it and yet we still gain seasons of happiness in our lives if we stop to pay attention to those moments. Yes those moments of pain seem to last longer than the ones of happiness for some of us but God is there still. We suffer when things don’t go our way. We suffer when we are done wrong. We suffer when things or people are taking from our lives. We suffer in our illnesses …in our body aging and yet God is still there. Now you can ask how do we know this? Well the fact that you are reading this now proves it. Most, if not all of us, can relate to pain that pushes us past what we do not have the strength to come back from, or so we felt at that time. I’m here to tell you that you are not wrong. That pain and that kind of suffering exist. But I am also here to confirm to you that IF NOT FOR HIS GRACE..his powerful renewed grace each morning most of us would not make it to the next day. I speak from experience. I know what it’s like to feel like your heart is going to split because of the pain your feel physically and or emotionally. You feel like there is no way you can take one more bad thing and then that one more bad thing does come but somehow, just somehow, the strength not of yours is seen because it’s His. Given you just enough to put one more footstep in front …one more mile unto the next arises and you’re left wondering how in the world you even woke with the pain you had just hours ago. But you did wake. Not with strength for the year…not with strength for the month or even the strength for the week. You woke with just enough strength for the moment …for the next breath…for the next step. You now see that this strength was not of your own but from a source not of your own…His Holy Spirit’s grace had given you just enough. This is the miracle…when I should have died, I am yet still alive for one more moment. When I should have lost my mind..I am yet aware of all that is around me…when I shouldn’t be able to move …yet I am able to. It is there where you find God. It is there where he gives you new mercy and new grace. It fuels your body and spirit. It renews your mind for the next step. And then one day, one season perhaps…. your strength returns. Perhaps the sun is shining again and your season of pain pulls back into the background and you can breath again, think again, walk again and live again. But know even that is only possible because his grace carried you through to this moment and season. Are you paying attention to this moment and season?? And on that day and in that season don’t forget to live for him, help others, and always remember that when you thought nothing was left inside….he gave you his strength and grace so do the same for others and remind them of your road so that one day they might look to him in their worst times and find that same Grace and strength to keep going for one more moment.