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Grace & the Depths of Gratitude

Published on 10:17 PM By Aunica
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I don't really know where to start. I'm not sure if I'll be able to put into words the immense work the Lord has been doing in my heart over the past month. Wow. It's crazy to see Him working in my heart. I can see Him growing me and molding me into the woman He created me to be - what a beautiful, and sometimes painful, process!
Grace. Wow. I grew up thinking I knew what that word meant. "Yeah, yeah, Jesus loves me." Rambling off the Romans road to get stickers and badges in AWANAS, saying the right words to convince my counselors at camp I was saved, and sitting through church on Sundays - all under the assumption that I understood what grace was. I knew that Jesus died for me, but it didn't reach my heart.
Grace. Grace. Grace. Sometimes I just mutter it under my breath to remind myself that it's real. I am free. Free. FREE, I tell you. I'm free from my fears. I'm free to trust in the precious blood of Christ. I'm free to fail. I'm free to fall short. Christ has been victorious!
My heart sings of grace. AMAZING grace! How SWEET the sound! It truly saved a wretch like me. Every day I wake up amazed by grace. I can't wrap my mind around it. It costs me nothing. I'm starting to understand. Instead of just doing things under obligation or law, I do them because of the joy I've found in Christ.
Identity? Christ. My identity comes from all things Jesus. Because Jesus is awesome - I'm awesome. Boom.
Sometimes I just get so overwhelmed by Jesus' love that i start giggling. Uncontrollably. Until I cry. I think I just don't know how else to express how intense that emotion is?
Wow. I am free indeed. It's all because of Jesus I'm alive. The gospel has a new glow to it. As I realize how much I have yet to learn, I grow excited for the years to come. For more ways that God can grow me. For more ways I can experience grace & peace.
My soul is at rest. I breathe deeply in the arms of Christ. I am deeply loved by the Creator. Yahweh.

I want to shout because You are good. Sing, because You are good. Dance, because You are good - You're so good to me, Lord.

Romans 3:21-26 --->
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Romans 5:1-5 --->
 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

 Romans 6:22-23 --->
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Christmas break. Late night Jesus dates. I'll miss these sweet times of solitude in the presence of my Savior. What a blessing to be cradled by Him during this season at home.
Aunica

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