saved by grace

I’m sitting here at my desk going through emails and going through work related stuff. Everyone’s been talking about the Chilean Mine Rescue and how they’ve been glued to the TV. So I popped it on in my other screen to see what they were talking about (side note: have I been so wrapped up in the goings on of my world that I didn’t even realize that this had been happening?).

So it’s streaming along and all I see are people talking to each other, a few shots of the cables winding up, someone who’s probably a mama or a wife waiting in anticipation. I think to myself,”who is glued to this? where’s the saving of people?” And then I go about more work.

While sifting through images to proof and answering a few messages, I hear someone shout a little something exciting in a foreign language and my head pops up to see what’s going on. The lady who’d been waiting stands up and the camera’s on her. She’s got the most concerned and eager eyes I might ever have seen. She’s fidgety and seems not able to stand still. And then it happens. Out of this little hole in the ground comes this large capsule made from steel and holding someone who’d been down there for sixty-something days.

Immediately, tears sting my eyes because I’m watching so eagerly. And then I hear Him say, “See, Christie, you just have to be patient to see that I’m going to bring you out of it. The saving is happening in My time, not yours.” And then I think…You are just like that capsule. You’re here wrapping Your arms around us leading us out of these cold and dark pits that we are in.

As this man climbs out form the capsule I see that he drops to his knees and praises God for saving him. And as I see him bowed down, thanking God, I realize the magnitude that God’s grace is. This man had been trapped down in a pit for 2 months. The odds were against him, but God was for him.

I’m reminded of this morning in bible study when I re-learned about the mighty mighty Grace of God. That it’s by the grace of God that I am here today. By His Grace he’s allowed me to live and to love and to learn. By His Mighty Grace he saves me, cleanses me, forgives me.

By His grace He rescues me.

And I am so thankful for that. In a life where I don’t know if I’ve ever really understood His holiness, I am so thankful for His grace. I don’t know that I’ve truly placed that importance of acting and believing and knowing how holy, holy the LORD God Almighty is. I’m thankful that He graces me with more opportunities to learn and that He has a plan for me to know Him more.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31

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Gifts 98-105

a warm bed, home, family

food and water and air

friends who pray for me and believe with me

friends who are thankful for me

a hot cup of coffee

little girls who cut their own hair

hair stylists who make house calls to fix it

patience, if even just glimpses of it

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