His Grace

It's amazing where God meets me, how and when He speaks to me. It's been a busy day today and I wasn't sure when I'd get a chance to get into the Word. I was concerned I wouldn't get my daily manna until later today. As I'm going down the street this morning to get gas for the lawnmower and the tiller I get this song stuck in my head (and there's a testimony to the importance of choosing what I listen to). The whole time I'm out working in the yard today I've got this song running through my head, feeding me, encouraging me and just in general keeping my focus on God. The song I've been ruminating on for most of the day is Chris Tomlin's "Your Grace is Enough".

"Great is Your faithfulness oh God
You wrestle with the sinner's heart
You lead us by still waters in to mercy
And nothing can keep us apart"

Nothing quite like being reminded all day that God is faithful, that He leads me in mercy and that nothing, absolutely nothing can keep me apart from Him. The nice thing about that statement is that it's not just Chris Tomlin saying it, the Apostle Paul said it in Romans 8:35 - 39 as well. Nothing can separate me from the love of God!

I often cry out with Tomlin's words when I go before God.
"So remember Your people
Remember Your children
Remember Your promise
Oh God"
Remember Your promises God. You promised, Dad! You said You would, don't forget Your promises. I don't think it's inappropriate to remind God of His promises to us - as long as I also remember that He is faithful. If I also remember that;
"Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough for me".
God's grace is enough for me. That's something I tend to forget, I neglect to appropriate for myself. God's favour, entirely unmerited by me, is enough. It's enough for any and every circumstance I find myself in. It's enough for those situations which cause me to echo Job's words in Job 19:6,7 "know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me. "Though I cry, 'I've been wronged!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice." I may echo Job's words and say that God has wronged me but reality is, His grace is enough for me. I need to learn to be more like Job, who though if anyone ever had cause to say "God has wronged me" went on a few verses later in Job 9:25-27 to say, " I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!"

To recognize in every circumstance of my life that my Redeemer lives. To remember that He will stand upon the earth victorious and I will see Him with my own eyes. That certainly helps put a lot of the other stuff in my life in perspective. My God is faithful, He leads me in mercy, nothing can separate me from His love, His grace is enough, My Redeemer lives and I will see Him with my own eyes. What could I imagine or hope for that could overshadow that?

Psalm 8:4 "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?"