What is on your wish list for 2024? I’d like a stress free year, but chances are, that is out my control. Who hasn’t had a day of trouble? Who has t experiences a crisis, a predicament, or an issue with complications that are beyond figuring out? If not, there may be one just around the corner. This is not a glass half empty perspective because we live in a sin saturated world and we are not perfect in wisdom or problem solving. But we know the One who will NEVER leave us. My resolution is to realign my thinking with what God is doing, not on the hopes of material gain or political wins.
“We all want to rule our worlds. Each of us has times when we see authority as something that ends freedom rather than gives it. Each of us wants God to sign the bottom of our personal wish list, and if He does, we celebrate His goodness. But if He doesn’t, we begin to wonder if it’s worth following Him at all. Like our children, each of us is on a quest to be and to do what we were not designed by our Creator to be or to do. So grace comes to decimate our delusions of self-sufficiency. Grace works to destroy our dangerous hope for autonomy. Grace helps to make us reach out for what we really need and submit to the wisdom of the Giver. Yes, it’s true, grace rescues us from us.” - Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional
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