To finish well

My salvation is all about His grace.  My growing in faith is also all about His grace, in that He provides the opportunities for me to benefit from.  In the end, however, there is a part that I must play; decisions I must put into action that will determine my rewards, my capacity for joy.  All will be full – but some will be fuller than others because of things done in this life or more to the point because of the motives of our hearts.  Was it for His glory or our own?  Time will tell.  And so we push on to finish the race He has set before us.  I pray I may finish well.

morning musings

God is the one I want to please which means doing what He says and as He says it.  I can’t pick and choose what to obey and what not to obey.  When I ask for wisdom or a direction and He answers then I must obey – no excuses!  I cannot judge others when I too fall short of His glory.  Love is the motivation, for God, for others and lastly for myself.  It’s easy to write these words but quite another thing to put them into action which is why I so desperately need not just His assistance but His very existence in my life.  Like a spiral going up, each time I call out to Him because of some transgression, He and I get just a little closer.  He knows I am but dust and it is His Spirit in me that gives me life, hope, joy and peace.