God's Grace in My Heart ...

Wednesday, Nov 18, 2015. Is God's grace in my heart? I think that faith will change you - the faith which the biblical books talk about, the faith in Christ Jesus, if you want you can call it “true” faith - but its truth is not first about some doctrine, but it is about his grace reaching your heart and your life!

Grace towards Muslims …

Christians who have found God's grace will have that grace towards all people, Muslims, Jews, Atheists and Hindu people as well. God does not distinguish in this time of grace. He loves all humans - what ever religion they have. Yes, there will be a judgment day, and he has warned all of us about it. But it is a time of grace now, and we are all invited to find his grace!

Of course, the world is not a place where everyone would treat all other people nicely. It is not - and we know that. But how do we respond? Where is our own life and our own heart? From where does our strength come, to go a clear path full of grace and truth?

I believe that it this path comes from Christ. Jesus was right, he was and is the son of God, he was God coming into creation, he is the word of God. We hear far reaching claims, when we open the bible. But you can find life here, when you start to believe and to live in it! The spirit and the bride say: come! Come to the grace of the eternal one.

Grace …

What does his grace mean? And how do I find it? His grace is what he does in Christ Jesus. In him, in his death and resurrection, God opens a door for us to be fully justified, to step out of a life of illusion. You might be suspicious or critical. That is not bad, I have been very critical as well, and I still am. It is good to test things and to investigate them thoroughly. But when you do it, you will find Christ!

The holy spirit is full of grace, full of truth, full of love and forgiveness. It is a power which comes through the cross - I do not know another door or another path, and Jesus himself claimed that there is one door only, the “lamb of God”, the risen saviour, himself. But I can say that the door is a door indeed, and you can step through, and you will find astonishing clarity, bright light, warm light, truth and love and grace, blessing over blessing.

Get to know him. Read the biblical books and talk it through with Christians of faith. And then, when you know what you do: hand your life into his hand. Let him be your savior. Let him be your heart and your power and your center. Then, you become fully human - created in the image of God, to live with him in full trust. (RWEP) ... more texts