Embrace the Within no. 195
“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions. Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God [in a decisive act] as those alive [raised] from the dead [to a new life], and your members [all of your abilities—sanctified, set apart] as instruments of righteousness [yielded] to God. For sin will no longer be a master over you, since you are not under Law [as slaves], but under [unmerited] grace [as recipients of God’s favor and mercy]” (Romans 6:12-14 AMP).
Faith is an action. Hope is my confidence. I wake up every day with a choice. I live each moment with a choice. I am the sum of those decisions. Am I going to choose to act with faith?
There is nothing I can do to deserve grace. There is no amount of deeds I can do to make certain I earn grace. I am given grace freely. I need only take grace. And then I need to act like it.
Works can’t get you grace. Works are there to show your grace. Remember that, “Euen so the faith, if it haue no woorkes, is dead in it selfe” (James 2:17 GNV). So I don’t get a free pass to accept grace and do nothing with that grace. Faith is an action.
That action requires that I live as an Ambassador of His Kingdom by living in alignment with His commands, “'Iesus answered, and sayd vnto him, ‘If any man loue me, he will keepe my worde, and my Father will loue him, and we wil come vnto him, and wil dwell with him. He that loueth me not, keepeth not my wordes, and the worde which ye heare, is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me’” (John 14:23-24 GNV). And that looks a lot like, “''And he sayd to them all, ‘If any man will come after me, let him denie himselfe, and take vp his crosse dayly, and follow me’” (Luke 9:23 GNV). Every moment of every day I need to deny myself, take up His cross, and follow obediently.
Grace and Shalom to your home.
I love you. I forgive you. Have a blessed and abundant day!
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