Grace for More Grace

I just started reading Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Don Whitney. I have read it before but I felt the need again for it. It is a book all Christians need. It got me thinking about discipline. How should I look at discipline? What is discipline? Discipline is God's grace working in me to put me in situations where grace is given. Shorter, it is grace for more grace. God is working on my heart to want to put myself in situations where God will give me more grace. I praise God for his grace that brings me to his abundant grace more and more as he increases my appetite for it!

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You'll Never Eat the Same Way Again

Yes that is right! If you read this post you will never approach eating the same way again. I have been receiving blessing though Heavenward for a couple days now. I pray that I will be bless by it for a long time more.

Now it is time for dinner. I will be eating it with view toward the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Free Will

No there is no need for quotes around that title. Below is a comment I left on this excellent summary of the TULIP acronym.

Regarding the freedom of the will no one choose that goes against their hearts desires. Thanks be to God that he has graciously changed my desires! We are all free. I praise God that I am now free indeed! The joys of sovereign grace are inexpressible!

Yes, I believe in free will. And I praise God for giving me a new heart to change that will to be conformed to his. Rejoice in the sovereign grace of God.

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Truth by Trial

Most of us have hear the phrase "tried and true." Yet I have never heard the title of this post. This is shocking to me because as I meditate on it I see the grace in it. Our trials reveal the truth. They reveal the truth about the desires of our hearts. With this revelation we are able to grow closer to God (by grace) where there is fullness of joy.

So next time we meet a trial, great or small, lets obey the commandment to "count it all joy."