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Throwback Thursday: The Grace of God

July 24, 2014 by Cate H

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This is probably one of my favorite pieces I have written. I did this for #SheSharesTruth, a She Reads Truth link-up. Be reminded of the Grace of God and embrace that Grace as Yours today.

Happy Friday everyone! 🙂 I have talked about She Reads Truth sooo many times. Raving about how awesome the concept is-a community full of women reading God’s Word and learning together. I just love the Church as a whole, and community is something that really touches my heart. She Reads Truth has gotten even better-as if that were possible- and they are now giving readers an opportunity to teach others what they have learned. Enter #SheSharesTruth. The details are nicely laid out in the post, but I just wanted to take a few moments and share my heart and what God has shown me through Psalm 130.

Psalm 130 spoke to my heart in a great way. My journey to where I am today as a wife and mother has not been an easy one. I don’t have a perfect saved and never looked back story. Instead, I have a story filled with bad decisions, a heart marred by hurts from my past, and one heck of a testimony about the Grace of God. I identify with the Psalmist-hardcore.

3-4 If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings,
who would stand a chance?
As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit,
and that’s why you’re worshiped.
 Partying. Sex. Pride. Lies. And those are just the big ones. If God kept a record of everything I had done, I wouldn’t have any hope for a good life. But instead He pushes any record of my sins as far as the East is from the West. Forgiveness is who He is. It is the core of the Gospel. He does it for His Name’s sake. I think there is a reason why God called David, in all his dysfunction and sin, a man after His heart. Throughout the Bible, God calls sinners. He has this beautiful habit of taking a life that is so soiled by immorality and bad things, and making that life not only amazing.. But using that life to touch so many other lives. We serve a God of second chances. Life has no meaning, we are lost, we are shame filled..then God comes.

7-8 O Israel, wait and watch for God—
with God’s arrival comes love,
with God’s arrival comes generous redemption.
No doubt about it—he’ll redeem Israel,
buy back Israel from captivity to sin.
When God shows up big things happen. We are not the same. With Gods arrival comes love. Generous redemption. We do not serve a distant God. God isn’t just waiting for us to mess up so He can discard us. He doesn’t forget about us, even in the worst of our pits. Instead He has our names carved on His hand as a reminder. We all are bound to fall down. It’s human nature. We have this struggle against ourselves that is..well, hard. It’s a fight, an epic battle. But all that matters is that we keep fighting. That we accept the Grace that is so clearly out there for us in our weakness. 
Choose to fight today.  

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