This morning, as I am reading my Bible, my 3yr old daughter woke up and came to me… her words to me: “I am trying to wake up!” I ask her why? It’s soo early?!
“Because I NEED to be with you!!”
It’s sweet, and she climbs onto my lap and fold herself into me, and I am thinking… isn’t this how we are supposed to fold ourselves into Christ?
I am really still a child in Christ… Paul writes to Titus in chapter three about the young followers… and I look at myself?
Do I show disrespect because of who I am and what I have achieved? Is that arrogance creeping back in? Is my word inflammatory? Or kind… ?
Paul reminds me that what I have in life, is a gift. I didn’t earn one good thing…
I look at that big red block…
Foolish
Disobedient
Deceptive
Slave to my own desires
Evil behavior
Jealous
I don’t even know what to say… how can I break away from this without God picking me up and carrying me out?!
Not one righteous thing I did can save me and it will never balance the scales, but God’s Grace and love is picking me up every day and folding me into himself.
… and I can start this day and try again. Not because I earned anything but because I am grateful that He is my Father, I am his child, and He will stop at nothing to save me.
