Finding Grace in Our Struggles

Man, what a day yesterday was! It’s as if the last few days of my writings were preparing me for my own failure and struggles...“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;”James 1:19 I would have loved to have stopped today, meditated on the above verse and then pressed on with my email response. But, I didn’t. I fired off an email that was taken out of context and I found myself apologizing and feeling terrible all night. It was unintentional, but words can be harmful. But, as I wrote about all week, in our struggles we find God showing us his grace. His grace came to me later last night in a random text message from one of our brothers on this text chain, unknowingly sharing God’s grace and his own weaknesses. It was quite comforting and I knew right where it was coming from. But as I’ve said, when we are struggling and sin, that’s when God shows his greatest transformational power of his grace. No matter how dark your sin or mine, God can change our story. No one , not even the Bible’s greatest heroes are perfectly holy. That’s why God sent Jesus. And that’s how your story can be forever transformed. Man, I am surely grateful for a loving and forgiving God. God > MeGrace,