Day 1: It's Not About Me
- Joni
- Aug 1
- 2 min read
Good Morning NEW DAY.
A NEW DAY filled with NEW MOMENTS with JESUS.
Because JESUS IS HERE.
For it is all about JESUS
and
"IT'S NOT ABOUT ME".
Hmm.
But maybe it is
about me and you and everyone else,
because GOD made it
about ONE AND FOR ALL.
For didn't
GRACE come swaddled in a manger?
Hmm.
GRACE is one of those
CHRISTIAN~ESE words
that is the most misunderstood,
because it isn't a word.
GRACE is a GIFT,
a beautiful GIFT that never stops giving.
GRACE GIFTS you STRENGTH,
when you are WEAK.
GRACE GIFTS you FORGIVENESS,
when you are GUILTY.
GRACE GIFTS you LOVE,
when you are REJECTED.
GRACE GIFTS you LIFE,
when you are DEAD.
GRACE IS A GIFT
that is LIFE CHANGING,
because GRACE IS SURRENDERING
to the GIVER OF GRACE.
GRACE is ONE SIZE FITS ALL.
GRACE drips from the CROSS
into every human being,
the GIFT OF JESUS
who stands at the door of the heart and knocks.
HUMILITY turns the doorknob.
For when you are empty of yourself,
there is GRACE,
an overabundance of a LOVE
that you can't produce on your own,
because GRACE LOVES you like you have never been LOVED before.
And when GRACE enters your HEART,
you beat to a different drummer
because you become different.
For you
LIVE from the INSIDE OUT,
because
JESUS LIVES through you,
doing what you can never do on your own.
WEAK knees fall on the floor, so that JESUS takes you to the next step~
“MY GRACE is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses,
so that the power of CHRIST may rest upon me"
(2 Corinthians 12:8-9)
Do you NEED an extra dose of GRACE
to do what you NEED to do,
but BELIEVE you don't have the STRENGTH to do it?
To FORGIVE the UNFORGIVABLE.
To LOVE the UNLOVABLE.
To BE KIND to the UNKIND.
To RECEIVE GRACE, even if you feel UNWORTHY.
But there is GRACE to do what GRACE does best.
For GRACE does the impossible, to make all things possible.
GRACE SWEET GRACE
all wrapped in the ONE who is THE GIFT OF GRACE~
"And my GOD will liberally supply (fill until full)
your every need according to HIS riches in glory in CHRIST JESUS"
(Philippians 4:19).
So if it is
ALL ABOUT JESUS
then
IT'S NOT ABOUT ME.
I don't have to
be enough.
I don't have to have
all the strength.
I don't have to have
all the answers.
I don't have to make
the impossible possible.
Because
IT'S NOT ABOUT ME.
It's about
the ONE whose GRACE
meets us
right where our strength ends.
So today
empty your hands
of
"ME".
And open them
to receive
the
GIFT of
"GOD'S GOOD GRACE"
(listen to the song below)
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