GRACE

So today I spent a good part of the day cleaning the house - I mean deep stuff, going through closets, under bathroom sinks, kitchen mugs that I don't like anymore. I'm getting ready for a garage sale and want to really purge the house of "stuff" I don't need. It feels good!

Emily isn't feeling well so she was actually home today. A rarity, she has to be sick to be home. Silly girl...get the hint chicky. We love you too....so we watched a movie tonight about a guy who gave up his life to help many others. It left me with mixed feelings but reminds me of the sacrifice that Jesus made for me and you. He wants the very best for us and was willing to die on a cross for mine and your sins. I so completely do not deserve it, but he washes us every day with his grace. As Paul says "my grace is sufficient for you." That is so beautiful to me - his grace, it's like Jesus telling us "I know you are a sinner and that you sin against me, but I love you so much that I am going to suffer in your place and give you the gift of eternal life, I know that you don't deserve this, but take it, it's my free gift of love to you."

So as I clean house, even the house inside of me, I will walk freely every day in this amazingly free gift of love that I know in Jesus. He is all I need! Dear Jesus, help me each day to walk with you leading, not me. Thank you for your love for me. It's not about me, it's all about You.