The Amazing Gift

Grace

How can we ever fully understand

while we still walk this earth

looking through our human eyes 

We cannot truly understand the great depths of your love

of your forgiveness

of your amazing grace

I know I struggle most of all with grace

the concept throws me for a spin

Trust is not easy

and faith in the unseen is hard

but grace, oh grace

I cannot fathom you

To know that what I do means nothing

I am nothing

your grace is everything

My heart cries with sorrow for the wrong I do

for the mistakes I make and the sin I commit

I want to please you 

I want to live my life for you and you alone

This I feel is something I have to do

Yet, oh God, I forget 

hour after hour

day after day

week after week

month after month

and year after year

that your grace is all I have

your grace is all I need

not my will

not my actions

not my wishes

Your grace and your grace alone saves me

Oh God I need you

I want to understand grace

to appreciate it and not forget that amazing gift

because I am lucky to have your grace

I do not deserve it

I do not always act like I want it

But God hear my cry

I do want your grace

I want it with every fiber of my being

my heart pleads for you to inscribe it on my heart

so that when I am at my lowest,

and wondering why I keep failing,

tormenting myself for again falling from you,

nailing your hands to the cross for the millionth time,

I will remember the amazing gift I have received 

the one that tells me its not by my deeds 

or by my actions

but by YOU alone 

The amazing gift of grace

Quote of the Day:

"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."   - 2 Cor 12:9-10