All Good Gifts

 Hold a dime upto your eye
And it will look an enormous size
So you'd think God shrinks As you look down here for more 

We don't get it right, who would've guessed?
Hallelujah, God doesn't expect
More than his own grace to carry you to shore
 

                   - Michael Morgan, All Good Gifs | Before The Throne

Random Thought

The difficult thing about believing the message about the bible is that you try to get your mind around two infinities... juxtaposed beside each other... and if that is not enough, one infinity is greater than the other.

The infinity of your sin, the infinite power of God's grace, and the infinite power of God's grace to cover your sin.

Random Thought : Vessels of grace

We aren't sources of grace. We are vessels of grace. If we don't get it, we cant give it. So lets make sure we take a lot of it. 

Random Thought: My Testimony

My Cup overflows

Random Thought #quite high

Grace does not come, wink at you and say, "It is OK", it comes with a sober face, rips off your bonds and says, "It has been paid"

"For sin shall not have dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace"

- Romans 6:14

These and Those

These go to God and say, "Its quite embarrassing to keep coming here so often. I'm sure I'll get it right this time. But for now, can I have a little more grace?"
Those go to God and say, "To save me you will need infinite grace", He says, "Infinite Grace is what you will get." They say, "Thank you".

These are obsessed with trying to please God,
Those are obsessed with enjoying Him.

These look to the Cross as a headstart,
Those look to the cross as their victory.

At the feast, their servings are scanty,
At the feast, the one that has infinite food, they are generous with their servings and thankful in their hearts.

These are not self-righteous
Those are not self-righteous either

These keep trying
Those quit trying

They take grace just enough to patch up their performance,
Those are so busy taking grace, they don't start performing, and yet the perform much better.

Happiness is a scarcity with these,
Joy is overflowing with those.

Random Thought #531

If I live each day of my life blind staggering drunk on grace, I think it will be well lived. 

Robert Farrar Capon on Grace

"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred-proof grace—of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started…Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, nor the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case.”, 

 - Robert Farrar Capon

"For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified."

Romans 8: 29-30