Just So Happens
I'm a girl with a past. Who isn't right? But I'm talkin a lot of tough, difficult, ugly stuff. I've had extensive experience with grace. I don't think I could function without it. God has met me in so many places, and covered me, oh so gently, oh so beautifully in His ever lovin grace. I like to think of it as an Umbrella.
Being under the Umbrella of God's grace means I am fully protected. That's right. That means I can face my past, my baggage, my ugliness, and my mistakes....all of it because I stand under the umbrella of that grace.
It doesn't mean I have an excuse to do what ever I feel like it, it means I embrace my flaws, and the glitches in my soul because there is something bigger than those. There is something bigger than me that says, "it's ok, everyone falls short, every soul has it's glitches, everyone has a past and every human needs grace, so every human needs an umbrella." Grace is God saying, "it's ok, I love you anyway, no matter what you've done or where you've been. I know it all anyway, I promise it's safe under my umbrella." {ok, now I feel like I'm singing a Rihanna song}
I know I am reaching for an Umbrella all throughout my day!
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.2 Corinthians 12:9
Hearing the message of Grace is what made me love God in the first place. I mean really God, me? You love me? I can relate to some extent to the Women at The Well, and the prostitute that washed Jesus' feet with her hair and perfume. Grace is God saying, you're safe with me, no matter what. And He keeps extending that grace as we keep trying to figure this life out and as He keeps shaping our hearts and lives. This is why it's so crucial to extend the umbrella of grace to others. Because it's extended to us.
Who do you need to give an umbrella to today? This week?
It doesn't mean I have an excuse to do what ever I feel like it, it means I embrace my flaws, and the glitches in my soul because there is something bigger than those. There is something bigger than me that says, "it's ok, everyone falls short, every soul has it's glitches, everyone has a past and every human needs grace, so every human needs an umbrella." Grace is God saying, "it's ok, I love you anyway, no matter what you've done or where you've been. I know it all anyway, I promise it's safe under my umbrella." {ok, now I feel like I'm singing a Rihanna song}
I know I am reaching for an Umbrella all throughout my day!
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.2 Corinthians 12:9
Hearing the message of Grace is what made me love God in the first place. I mean really God, me? You love me? I can relate to some extent to the Women at The Well, and the prostitute that washed Jesus' feet with her hair and perfume. Grace is God saying, you're safe with me, no matter what. And He keeps extending that grace as we keep trying to figure this life out and as He keeps shaping our hearts and lives. This is why it's so crucial to extend the umbrella of grace to others. Because it's extended to us.
Who do you need to give an umbrella to today? This week?
Comments
grace. every day. and it is sufficient for me.
fill me, O God, and help me receive it as well as extend it.
happy monday!
steph
Noelle
Our past forms us, and helps us to reach others that we would have been unable to reach and share His love for us with. Thats how i feel anyway, so no matter how ugly our past is.... We can be so thankful for the grace he provides us to live today. thanks for sharing. You are a blessing.
What a lovely post, Gina.
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