Grace 10/31/2010
 
Grace an environment that seems to have become to convolute by the church, that we can’t see the forest through the trees.

We so deeply desire this utopia of how the church is suppose to be, based on the what we are raised to believe, that we miss the beauty of what is staring us right in the face.  

God’s grace for us is not measured by how white our teeth are, or by how nice our suits are pressed, but by the offering of our hearts. Grace is offered in the messiness of everyday life. Coming broken in a place where we can walk together in our brokenness and be loved all the more for it. 

To be loved more deeply in our struggles, allowing others to know our true hearts and allowing ourselves to love and be loved in that, that my friend is Grace.  

Living under the lie of performance, that God will love me more, if I can just reach this plateau, when I achieve this, when I can give this, or when I have memorized these verses of scripture, then and only then will He will love me more, or the flip side to that coin, how can He love me, with my sin, my shortcomings, there is no way that He loves me.  

There is NOTHING more I can do in my life to get Him to love me more then He does at this very moment, and no matter how far I fall, no matter how much I stray, He will not love me less. He loves me for who I am , unconditionally, and without fail. 

He is my Father, my Abba, my King, my Lover, the pursuer of my heart, and He loves me unconditionally.

 The last two days have been spent walking in this truth, how amazing it was.
I along with two hundred others lived in this environment. Listening to the truths of God’s love for us through the eye’s of grace. I was like a kid in a candy store when face to face with Bill Thrall, John Lynch and BruceMcNicolo, the authors of Truefaced. Here is one of the hi-lights of the two day seminar, me and John Lynch. Truly amazing.

  

 


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