Welcome to His Grace Applied

Welcome to His Grace Applied- Saved But Stuck,

As a Christian we have all received His grace, the moment we asked Jesus to forgive our sins and to be our Savior. The real question for us to consider is: Have we applied it to our everyday walking around lives? More than likely we were very willing to allow Gods grace to wash away our past sins but His grace is for everything in our life. It is for our anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, resentment, envy, jealousy, worry, doubt, unkind words or thoughts, knowing the right thing to do or say and just being plain old stubborn or rebellious about doing it. It is for not loving our self or others because they don't look or act like us. Or they fall short of our unreal expectations. You know the ones we have conjured up in our mind about how life and people are suppose to be according to me. Those same unreal expectations we never tell anyone about but we get so upset when they are not met. These are sins. We just call them the other names. Even though we don't like them, it doesn't make us feel so bad if we just deny or ignore the word sin. These are some of the places where we can get stuck. We can truly be saved by the blood of Jesus but we may not be experiencing the abundant life Jesus promises us. It is time to apply His grace.

His grace is His favor, freely given to us with nothing required on our part. Grace, love and mercy, as well as holiness and righteousness are all part of the character of God. It is His isness, who He is, what He is all about, it flows from Him into His world and His people. It will never run out. We can not use it all up. There is no quota set aside for us. In typing this, it overwhelms me. My little mind struggles to wrap my thoughts and feelings around all of it. How big is our God to have enough of this for every person He has made? How deep, wide, long and high is His love and grace? But the most important question I have to answer for myself is, why am I stuck instead of moving into the plan of God for my life? Why do I want to be angry and not forgive someone? Why do I chose to go around that same mountain everyday all day long? Thinking about the offense that they have committed against me. Then talking, over and over about it to anyone who will listen to me, trying to make myself feel justified in how I have responsed to them. Don't think for one minute you can handle this. It is like trying to carry fire in your hands, you will get burned.

I want to encourage you to look at the things I have mentioned. Just check to see if you  have applied His grace to them. The great God of the universe wants you to be FREE, not stuck!