The Thin Place, Where We Experience the Sufficiency of Grace

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  • "I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?" -Till We Have Faces, CS Lewis
  • Death, be not proud. For today, through death, through our rebellion, through killing God in the flesh, through what should have separated us from God forever, we are redeemed and restored. Death, be not proud.
  • Praying today for child-like faith. Come, Lord Jesus.
  • #Throwback to last July when I got my first “out there for everyone to see” tattoo. Ironically, I spent the entire day at my niece’s first birthday party trying to keep it on the DL so that my grandmother wouldn’t notice. Last week, 9 months later, she looked down at my arm and gasped, asking when I had gotten a tattoo. But when I told her about how my sister-in-law and I had gone together to get them because we wanted something to symbolize the enduring bond of family and sisterhood, she lightened up. Because family, family matters. And family endures.
  • Thank You, God for Mondays. Thank You for fresh starts where we can begin again the things we’ve determined to do but failed in the past. Thank for blank pages, where we can proclaim old truths and new joys. Thank You for sustaining me, day in and day out, by Your extravagant grace. And for coffee, which I’m pretty sure is one of the most lavish common graces given to mankind.
  • These last few weeks have been overwhelming and often, discouraging. But my hope isn’t in temporal circumstances or my ability to research like crazy and know the right answers or having a strong cup of coffee in the morning - my hope is the Lord. • The joy of the Lord is my strength. Each and every moment.
  • Remembering when I lived a a street away from the Pacific Ocean and would slip over early in the morning to read my Bible as the sun rose. Now here I am, in Michigan, with piles of snow outside my door, enjoy each new season God brings. Each one seems to bring different valleys and new joys, but through it all, God is faithful. #faithjourney #faithblogger #seekhimfirst #graceupongrace #godspromises #godsword #trustgodsplan #christianposts #dailybible #biblegram #godsword #godisfaithful #jesusfollower #christfollower #readyourbible #holybible #godisgood #biblescripture #christianliving #christianblog #chrisrianblogger #thewordofgod #shereadstruth #biblestudymoments #seekjesus #givemejesus #bissisterhood #scriptureoftheday
  • More than anything else today, we need Jesus. More than grit or determination or luck or good hair, we need Him. Because little me in a sinful mess. There's so much ugly in my heart I want to keep hidden. I'd rather put on a happy face and present a nice, clean package to the world. But announcing that I'm a Christian is owning that I am a deeply broken person. Each area I fail to own my sin is an area I am saying I don’t trust the blood of Christ to cover my sin. When I humble myself, when I own my sin, I acknowledge there is grace, because of the precious blood of Christ. I allow my brothers and sisters in Christ to see that Christ’s blood is not given to heal the healthy but to mend the broken, sinful people. And His blood can clean the soul of a sinner like me. So I’m setting the goal to be holy. And, I’ve already failed it. Daily. Hourly. Minutely even. But even though I know failure is certain this year, I know that victory is as certain as the sun rising. It is a goal that I will keep, not because I won’t try to give up, but because I will be sustained by Christ. He has promised to make me and the entirety of His Church spotless and radiant. He has bought us with His very body and blood and will one day present us, His redeemed bride, to the Father. May we be faithful until that end that we may stand with the saints numbered in Revelation who have been washed in the Blood of the Lamb. #proverbs31woman #proverbs31 #womenintheword #savedbygrace #virtuouswoman #godlywoman #godsgirl #christianliving #butgod #blessedandhighlyfavored #trustgod #daughteroftheking #walkbyfaith #daughterofaking #beautyfromashes #graceupongrace #dailydevotional #faithjourney #jesuslover #faithblogger #godisgood #graceoverperfection #michiganblogger #wordbeforworld #thinplaces
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