Discovering Who I Am

Posts Tagged ‘Discovery’

• Grace is the quality of undeserved and unmerited favor
• Mercy creates a new opportunity –Grace seizes the opportunity and makes the most of it
• Where the spirit of grace is, the heart is set free
• Grace is God’s riches at Christ’s expense
• Grace is free and spontaneous willingness to bestow
• Grace is not a reciprocal response, not a favor earned or returned. It is proactive, not reactive
• Grace will never leave you in the condition it finds you
• We are repositioned in life by grace
• All God has brought to mankind comes to us as grace, by grace
• Like water, grace fills every nook and cranny of the vessel in which it is poured, and, like water, we must drink of grace; it must be received as a gift
• God does not send man to hell. Man sends himself to hell by rejecting God’s grace

–By Marshall Townsley of Believers Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico

We all need new hope. Why do you think health clubs see huge spikes in new memberships at new years? With the start of a new season comes a sense of great possibilities and opportunities. God knows this about us – He designed it into us. If you think about it, everything in the universe is built around cycles. The rotation of the Earth around the sun ensures the seasons. Each new year, new month, new day, new book, new job; each new relationship… even rearranging the living room gives the opportunity for a new start. Might I suggest that we embrace this new year with anticipation of the new things God wants to accomplish in us and through us? It is OK to hope for that victory we have been needing; that breakthrough we have been waiting for; expect the blessings and promises from God that His word tells us are ours. May God accomplish His perfect will in you and through you this new year.

I believe in Jesus Christ and in the beauty of the gospel begun in Bethlehem.

I believe in the one whose spirit glorified a little town; and whose spirit still brings music to persons all over the world, in towns both large and small.

I believe in the one for whom the crowded inn could find no room, and I confess that my heart still sometimes wants to exclude Christ from my life today.

I believe in the one who the rulers of the earth ignored and the proud could never understand; whose life was among common people, whose welcome came from persons of hungry hearts.

I believe in the one who proclaimed the love of God to be invincible:

I believe in the one whose cradle was a mother’s arms, whose modest home in Nazareth had love for its only wealth, who looked at persons and made them see what God’s love saw in them, who by love brought sinners back to purity, and lifted human weakness up to meet the strength of God.

I confess my ever-lasting need of God: The need of forgiveness for our selfishness and greed, the need of new life for empty souls, the need of love for hearts grown cold.

I believe in God who gives us the best of himself. I believe in Jesus, the son of the living God, born in Bethlehem this night, for me and for the world.

Anonymous

I am always so thankful for the blessings and abundance that God pours into my life. However, occasionally there is that moment during which an unusual awareness sets in of all we really have and are privileged to do. That we live in prosperity goes without saying. Not only do we not have need, we live a lifestyle unmatched by kings and rulers not so long ago. To be used of God to help build His kingdom, to have a beautiful wife and healthy children, to have a family who cares for us, to have health. And this time of year, we are reminded of the abundance of grace we were given in the gift of our Saviour. Let’s not lose sight of what we are celebrating at Christmas. As you give and receive gifts this Christmas, give thanks to God for the ultimate gift.

I have always tended towards doubting who I am; questioning and second-guessing what is real and authentic in me and what I am entitled to claim as real in me. I have tended towards emulating the things I see in others that resonate with me rather than just being that unique creation that I am. I will try to make a video I am producing look like another rather than trusting my vision. I will tend to copy someone else’s design, and when I do create something original, I don’t allow it to be as valid as someone else’s original idea. As much as Solomon was right in Ecclesiastes 1:9 when he wrote “there is nothing new under the sun?”, I believe that God has made you and me unique as a snow flake (many of which are falling outside as I write this) and there is no one else that thinks or creates like you do, or like I do. We need to trust God in us and be who He made us to be.