November 17, 2018
GRACE BEYOND FEAR
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Fear grips our hearts whenever we assume that all our happiness depends on us. We know our brokenness too well: the foolish choices; missed opportunities; the coldness and the distance caused by hot, close things we’ve said.
Unless we’re truly loved in spite of all we’ve done, fear is the natural response to what seems painful randomness.
But grace proclaims a holiday from fear—not for an hour or a day, but for as long as we allow ourselves to be surrounded—yes, and held—by never-ending love.
Grace is God’s reassuring answer to the question mark of fear. “I have loved you with an everlasting love,” He says. “I have drawn you with unfailing kindness” (Jer 31:2-3).
Believe His love. And stay in grace.
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