GRACE MOUNTAIN

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

Things were going swimmingly.  Relationship with GOD rolling along.  Focus was solid.  All cylinders firing.  Giving and getting good Word.  Locked in.  Blessed.

Then boom.

Old “trigger”.

Old temptation.

Hours of “good” blown up in an instant.

Took the bait.  Sin hooked and now hurting today from the reeling in.

The enemy is giggling.  He saw it coming.  He knew fatigue was setting in.  He knew the pace was too much.  He saw the flame out coming and offered the match and the gasoline.

It would be devastating if our GOD was into measuring performance.  It would be devastating if GOD were into keeping scores.  All that good work would be no match for the fault and failing; the sin.

But for GRACE!

And no I am not talking about “grace” as the get out of jail free card.  The consequences remain.  Remember the hook still hurts. 

But grace steps in and puts out the fire!  Puts us back on the path; helps us recover!

Why?

How?

 “When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.” –Max Lucado

But you say, “You don’t know the failure in my life. I fail God; I ask forgiveness; then I turn around and fail Him again.” Maybe you would say, “Even today before I started reading this DISPATCH I failed God spiritually; and now I cannot even approach God because I know He doesn’t want to see me.”

I invite you, in your mind right now, to bring all of your sin together into a pile. Heap it up! Bring the sins of your mind—your lustful thoughts, your anger toward people, your un-forgiveness, your bitterness.

Bring your words—the hurtful things you have said to people, either in the distant past or just recently. Bring them all together.

Bring your laziness—the times you should’ve been in God’s Word, the times you should’ve been doing things for God and you ended up just wasting those hours.

Bring your actions—things you have done that you know you shouldn’t have done, or things that God called you to do and you didn’t do them.

Bring it all, everything you can think of, and mountain your sin up until it stands as high as the highest peak you have ever seen! But that mountain of your sin will always be in shadow…because there’s a mountain behind it ten times as big—the mountain of God’s grace!

Hebrews 4:16

English Standard Version (ESV)

16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne (the mountain) of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

It is always MORE than enough!

John 1:16

English Standard Version (ESV)

16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

 

 

HAVE A BLESSED DAY

Freedom Church

 

Pastor GDelaney