Oct 17, 2008

Girl of Truth & Grace

Sometimes I feel like the luckiest girl on earth. Somehow He makes me feel so special with the way He watches over me and my family. How He just leads and guides us and is forever there where ever we may go.
Recently I visited a friends church on a Sunday morning. I thought I was going to the first service but it turned out they only had one worship service which started at 11:00. I was there at 9:30, for the Lifegroup(small groups) time. I had two of my boys with me. The oldest went to the youth group and the other went to children's while I braved the long walk to the woman's only group.
Turns out they were studying a book by Randy Alcorn on truth and grace. Well the H.S had just started opening my eyes to what truth is a couple weeks ago. I still don't understand it all but I see how He is leading me into the truth of what truth really is. So far I got,
1. Truth is His Word
2. There is the whole truth. This is where it gets kinda tricky for me cuz if the
whole truth is there then there is a lot of Christians that claim to know the truth
and even go around preaching that truth to others but they themselves do not even
believe in the whole truth. What I am seeing is that so many of us pick and
choose what we want to believe out of the whole truth and leave the rest. And
this leads me to the third thing.
3. I'm not sure we will ever come to know the full truth until we reach heaven. Or can we?

So I'm at this church I never been to b4, in a small group, studying on truth and grace. I learned that you can't have truth without grace and you can't have grace without truth, there must be a balance. A verse that God pointed out to me is from John 1:14 - And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
So why do I feel so lucky? Somewhere in between my home church and Royal Identity(not my church nor the one I visited this past Sunday) there is being created in me a balance. As one girl put it, I get the best of both worlds. And this makes me feel so special. How He called me out of darkness and into His marvelous light in a world that is still searching for something more....
Lead me on and I will follow hard after You!

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