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Part 1 of Grace Space:
"Savings Grace"
At the ocean of God's great
love for me,
Standing on the shore of
the imminence
of the second
death,
I felt the first waves of
His mercy
tugging subtly
at my toes,
Drawing me away from the
shore
and toward
a more permanent
cradling in its great depths.
An unknown courage then
welled up
in me, beginning
to ebb and flow,
almost flirtatiously,
To not just receive, but
to surrender
to the fact
that I am not perfect,
But that somehow in this
space
I most certainly can be.
John 1:16
Acts 4:33
Romans 1:1-5, 6:14
1 Corinthians 15:10
2 Corinthians 8:9, 12:9
Ephesians 2:4-7
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
Hebrews 4:16
1 Peter 5:10
Philemon 25
Part 2 of Grace Space:
"Living Grace"
Having since given in
to the undertow
pulling me
further and further away from
the rocky snags on the beach
where I once cast my thin lines,
I now swim parallel to the
shore,
letting God's
gracious current carry me,
wherever He wants me to go.
Swirling in the eddies of
His
daily enabling,
The Holy Spirit inside teaches
me
how to resist
biting down on the lures
of the evil and lust of the now
distant shore.
Perfected not by my own
stroke,
but in the
sinlessness of the Son,
God's made a space for me,
for us all,
Where we can grow, to live
like Christ,
And invite others along
the way
to do the same.
Matthew 28:18 |