The Daily Invitation
Every day we have an opportunity to discover more about God and respond to his invitation to live in love and experience freedom. The Daily Invitation outlines the many ways Scripture calls us to know and follow God. By reflecting on these promises, believers are called to receive God’s give of grace, seek him earnestly, and surrender their lives.
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Look Again To The Hills
Our help comes from above, so look up. See the goodness, mercy, and love of God extended toward you. There is no other source of our help like the care that flows from our heavenly Father.
Gratitude’s Light
Renewing gratitude looks like taking the time to remove the old, burned-out lightbulbs and replace them with new testimonies of grace. It looks like a daily checkup on the state of our inner world and the commitment to constantly renew our faith before God.
The Trial Is Grace
It’s tempting to long for the “good days” when God was fresh in your life. Looking back on those early moments of faith, we might glamorize or idealize life at first with Christ, whereas in reality, that early season was probably marked with immaturity and blindspots you don’t deal with today. Where did that growth come from? It didn’t come through comfort and relaxation. It was cultivated through the friction of life and the discipline of the Holy Spirit.
Christ’s Will And Grace
The collision of Christ’s tender prayer with his mighty power on the cross marks the perfect intersection of divine grace. Not only does Jesus extend the power of salvation through his blood freely given for our sins, but he demonstrates his will for us to be included in his glory through his prayers.
Candidate For Grace
Forgiveness is not given because we earned it. It’s not extended because we signed up for it, and our application was received. We don’t get grace because we are a good candidate. The only thing that makes us a candidate for grace is our need for a Savior.
All Grace, All Things, All Times
God doesn’t invite us to a salvation moment of grace and then leave us to a lifestyle of striving. Rather, the gift of salvation is our commencement into a lifestyle of grace.
Asking For Grace
God could give us all the wealth we ever wanted, but that is too small a thing for him. Instead, God supplies abundantly more than we need in the areas where we are most desperate and least capable.
Freed For Freedom
God both frees us and enlists us in his army of freedom fighters. He didn’t free you so you could get off the hook. He freed you for an eternal purpose of freedom. Christ takes us out of the prison cell and hands us a job description that reads, “Live in my freedom.”
Access To Freedom
As we consider the scope of God’s grace, meditating on his steadfast love, we have the opportunity to realize that we are among those who were brought into salvation through God’s grace.
Even More
It is, therefore, a demonstration of God’s power and holiness that his sacrifice and gift of grace abounded even more than the compounding nature of sin and lawlessness. It is hard to imagine this kind of extreme power and goodness, so much so that we might be tempted to ignore the task.
Gladness Will Come
What I can declare is this promise. God will turn your mourning into dancing. This is the irresistible and unprecedented power of God in our lives. We can look at the cross of Jesus Christ, the great mark of suffering, and watch it transform into the empty grave, the promise of resurrection life.
A True Heart
I invite you to examine your heart. Do you have the confidence to enter boldly into the holy places and be transformed into the likeness of God? Or are you clinging to routines and ideologies that can’t save your soul?
Mark 10:49 | An Invitation to Dignity
How far does this invitation go? It extends to the lowliest outcasts of society. Standing before the blind beggar, Jesus honors the man by allowing him to make his request before God. Can you see that the fact that Jesus even listened shows unprecedented mercy and honor?