What grace looks like.

I woke up this morning to a splash.
I was so asleep…and then it sounded as if someone was having a doll house sized pool party in our tub.
A mouse!…no no.. it’s probably Ben taking a bath. I roll over to see the handsome hill of a husband sleeping peacefully unaware of the beach party in our room.
A bat!

I get him up…and he confirms..it’s a drowning mouse….
he asks me ;do I want to look at it? make sure it’s dead before he takes it out?
Ugh! no I don’t want to look at the ugliness. But I feel the *ping*..the familiar ping which pulls me.

It happens every day, this ping… Grab a Camera..like a living dream… interpret this.
Determined to ignore this one… I know what happens when I choose to look away from the *ping*...perhaps after I have had some tea….I wanted to talk of pumpkins….not mice.

*ping*.…

*ping*…

I tell you I am done with everyone glorifying sin. Oh you didn’t know they do it?.. they do.. all those sermons you heard as children about “You shalt not….” all omitting relationship with Christ and centering on flesh…the opposite of To Glorify.

Stop. Trying to NOT sin. Stop.
Stop trying to get better.
Stop telling yourself…”When I finally am more patient… less angry… overcome this eating…smoking…__________…this ….this…sin…I will be more productive.”
Stop! It is all just swimming in circles.
Swimming in a pool of self…self pity and self obsession.
Don’t slip in and get caught swimming in circles:

I have sinned..can’t get better…try harder..keep sinning…didn’t mean to again…getting worse… try harder… never going to be better…I am of no use.

While you are busy fussing with sin…. you are heading in the wrong direction

So stop.

Build a relationship… Keep Moving forward. Stop petting your sin. Stop giving it so much attention.
Because you can’t do what has already been done
And you spit on the Gift which was given to you when you try…when you obsess over your flaws.

This is what we all look like when we concentrate on sin.

But that isn’t how God sees us.

The price was paid.

There is nothing you can do better….you aren’t that smart.

All that is left is for us to walk away from our sin…to stop petting it and lavishing it with attention…

Because if He doesn’t even look at us like this, with just a bit peeking out.

Jesus covered us.

He took it all…He didn’t leave some for you to handle.

Don’t scoff at what He did.

Walk in who you are…

When God looks at you He doesn’t see all the sin…

it was all covered

all of it.

Now what?
What will you do when you can’t sit and excuse yourself from activity because of sin.
You move.
You Keep Moving.
You grow in relationship.
You own what was given to you.