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====== Abundant Grace ... ====== | ====== Abundant Grace ... ====== | ||
- | Thursday, June 29, 2017. | + | Thursday, June 29, 2017. The New Testament has a large number of passages which talk about grace, about |
+ | love, about the joy of the community with the Lord. God in himself is fantastic - and he offers us | ||
+ | a friendship and community which is deeper than anything we could ever experience with other humans | ||
+ | on the planet. His spirit is the origin of all spirits, he is the origin of life, and he has and is | ||
+ | life abundant, and abundant grace, abundant love, joy beyond measure. | ||
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**Love and Grace ...** | **Love and Grace ...** | ||
+ | One key point with the love of God is that he loves unconditionally. He loves us anyway. In a human | ||
+ | framework, we do not always experience this kind of love. Some even think they never find it. But | ||
+ | still it is there, in the relationship between parents and kids, and in many relationships. Let us | ||
+ | read a passage from Ephsians, where Paul talks about this fantastic grace of God: | ||
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- | 4 But3 God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, | + | 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, |
(from Ephesians 2) | (from Ephesians 2) | ||
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- | ** ...** | + | **Works to do ...** |
+ | Are you motivated by these words? God has prepared good works for you, to do them, to walk in them. It is | ||
+ | simple, you just need to choose. He gives you everything, even the possiblitiy to do good, to be there | ||
+ | and live, to be able to listen, ... it is all coming from him, source of life. There are so many good | ||
+ | reasons to trust him, and to search his ways! | ||
- | | + | God wants us to long for this kindness, this friendship. It is a friendship coming from him, he brings it |
+ | towards us. But it is also a kindness and friendship he wants to give to us to give it to others around | ||
+ | us. We are invited to inherit his love, his grace, his kindness. We are determined to live in this | ||
+ | community of the father and the son and the holy spirit. It will change us, no other way. That will be | ||
+ | fantastic, and it is, each and every single day. | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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