Grace
Distilled is a simple name but it has deep meaning to me and hopefully will to
you soon. The doctrine of grace is the idea that salvation and blessings God gives
his people are not earned and are undeserved. I strongly believe that God bestows blessings everywhere along
our journey and we need to stop, pause, and reflect to find the blessings so
abundantly in our lives. Then we need to share them with other believers to build them up and help them find their blessings.
Distilled
means here the extracting the most essential meaning and aspects of the larger picture. So I hope the
blog’s title is now clear to you. It is a platform to allow us to see other
Christians’ struggles and triumphs, how grace has affected them in their life,
and to hear about what our fellow Christians are doing for the kingdom.
I’ve thought
awhile about this project from either going direct to a book, a podcast, or a
blog. A blog seems the best course right now but hopefully it will include many
different mediums including written and verbal testimonies. The stories and testimonies
are to be encouragers, each person on here is just a normal person working for
the Lord and anyone reading can have similar things going on in their life.
Some will make you cry, others will make you laugh harder than you have in
years. What they will all have in common is that the Lord has worked in them
and they have an important truth to share with you.
Grace should
be a part of our daily lives and we should recognize it daily. This is just one
way we can do that as we think about grace. It is also a place for us to get
closer to one another as a Christian family. We will know more about the
awesome things that God is doing. We will be more aware and be able to share
more.
It will take time to gather the first set of stories but hopefully not too long. I leave you with one scripture about grace and another about sharing testimony.
"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was nor I, but the grace of God that is with me." 1 Corinthians 15:10
"…'Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has down for you, and what mercy he has shown you.'" Mark 5:19
It will take time to gather the first set of stories but hopefully not too long. I leave you with one scripture about grace and another about sharing testimony.
"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was nor I, but the grace of God that is with me." 1 Corinthians 15:10
"…'Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has down for you, and what mercy he has shown you.'" Mark 5:19
