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God Answers the Mess of
Life
Is there any
hope for the monotonous mess of life?
.
God answers the mess of life with one word: grace! Do we
really understand it? Grace calls us to change and then gives us the power to
pull it off! We are made new and live by a new power!
by Max Lucado
In a
few hours, the alarm will sound and the demands of the day will shoot you like
a clown out of a cannon into a three-ring circus of meetings, bosses, and
baseball practices.
And
for the millionth time, you'll make breakfast, schedules, payroll and...
But
for the life of you, you can't make sense of this thing called life — its
beginnings and endings, cradles and cancers, cemeteries and questions.
The
poor choices of life?
God
answers the mess of life with one word: grace!
Do
we really understand it?
A
prophet of God in a wild time spoke for God and said:
[Thus says the LORD God:] "I will give you a new
heart and put a new spirit within you!" -
(Ezekiel 36:26).
We
are made new and live by a new power!
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. ... I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead” (Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 1:18-20).
Max
is the best selling author of many many Christian books, a sought out speaker,
and loving husband, father, and grandfather. Max is in real life what you see
in his book -- someone who loves Jesus and loves the same kind of people that
Jesus loves! (Visit the Author's Website)
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201604/20160421_messoflife.html
