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What was my line again?

Wow it's been awhile! I haven't been on here because things got a little busy : )
I'm in school trying to figure out the route that God wants me to take and also trying to raise my energetic gorgeous daughter!
As always things have been up and down but the Lord is always faithful and carries me through my bad decisions haha.

I'm currently reading the ragamuffin gospel in my ladies bible study and it really has spoken to my heart about issues that I thought I understood (turns out I don't know jack, who woulda thunk?).
The reoccurring theme in the book (like the bible) is grace. God's amazing, immeasurable, almost incomprehensible grace.

Frankly grace has been a slap in the face for me.

Grace has told me that I don't know everything and NEVER will, and that I should rest in faith instead of being frustrated with the Lord. (Isaiah 55:8 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than yours and my thoughts than your thoughts.")

Grace tells me to submit to God not resist His will. (James 4:7-8 "Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Come near to God and He will come near to you. Wash your hands you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.")

Grace tells me to love, and that true love drives out all fear. (Matt. 5:46 "If you love those who love you what reward to you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?")

Grace has told me to rely not on myself but on the Lord and His spirit. (Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding." John 3:5 "Truly truly I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.")

Grace has stopped me in my tracks and showed me that my efforts/works/deeds are not the focus.

Grace...God's grace...has showed me that HE should forevermore be the one and only focus and nothing beside Him.

Had it not been for God's grace,love, and mercy I would not be where I am today. Jesus is it for me, Lord knows a sinner like me doesn't belong among the righteous yet He cleanses me and renews me and calls me His own. I can never fully define the why and how of my faith but I guess if I could it wouldn't really be "faith".

Guess that's it for now, God bless and holdfast <3

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