Week #16: Celebrate Grace!
April 16, 2007
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This Week's Topic: Celebrate Grace!
This week, I'd like to repeat a reminder I first shared with you last summer ... “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” – 2 Corinthians 12:9
------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Friend, On
a Sunday afternoon recently, I got stuck in a traffic jam near a red
light I’d passed earlier in the day. As we neared the intersection, I
could see several police cars, an ambulance, and a couple sitting in
the median – the wife appeared to be pregnant and unhurt – looking on
at emergency workers. From the position and the damage of the cars, it
was hard to tell just how the accident had happened. One of the cars
was surely totaled. I prayed a silent prayer of healing and recovery
for those involved. As a police officer waved our car by, I saw a
brief, but haunting image. It was the hands of an ambulance worker as
he gently pulled a white sheet over the driver’s seat. The crash had
been fatal. Two more times that week, I found myself in traffic
jams due to serious accidents at intersections I go through regularly.
It was unsettling. “Is there a message here?”, I thought. I realized
that the message was simple and two-fold: 1) Be careful and pay
attention when you are doing the routine things in life. It can be easy
to take for granted your safety and security, but a moment of
carelessness or distraction can have serious consequences. 2) Be
thankful for life and the many times God has protected you even when
you didn’t realize there was anything from which you needed to be
protected. I certainly don’t know what caused the accidents I
encountered that week, but I do know that all of us have taken common
risks that could have had dire consequences. "But for the grace of God,
there go I", John Bradford said in the 16th century. I've had a few
near misses in my life – potential crimes, car accidents and more –
that could have been devastating. But God intervened and it is the only
reason I am here. This week, I challenge you to take a moment to be thankful for the power of grace. Perhaps
it was not your safety in jeopardy, but a decision you made that could
have led to negative consequences. Yet you were given a second chance.
Be thankful. Fill your heart with gratitude for where you are and how
far you’ve come. Count your blessings daily. There may be a blessing
you’re still waiting on, a dream that has yet to come to fruition. But
there are so many more blessings you’ve already experienced. Focus on
the abundance of grace in your life. Secondly, slow down and
pay attention in your everyday routine. Perhaps you regularly eat or
talk on your phone while you drive. Maybe you forget to lock the doors
or you are not as alert as you could be when you are outside at night.
With the hectic pace of many lives, it can be easy to let your guard
down, but I invite you to be intentional about how you go about your
routine activities. Be thankful that even in times of carelessness and
weakness, it is often grace that keeps us.
Journaling assignment:
What are the three most significant ways in which you have experienced grace in your life?
My challenge to you this week:
Focus on the grace and blessings in your life. Praise God for them.
Until next time ... Warm wishes,
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