A new year, a new groove. A new opportunity to try it all over again. Perhaps this time go round, I'll get it right. Trial and error, that's what I live for in life. I may regret my mistakes, but I wouldn't take them back. All that, makes me what I am. "Never to suffer would never to have been blessed." Edgar Allan Poe had that right. Our mistakes, trials, curses, genetics...makes us the people we are today, or perhaps the people that we aren't. Either way, we are perfect in the grace that we have been given. Grace is enough. Better yet, His grace is enough.
The Apostle Paul is a man you either like or don't. I'm one that enjoys reading the Pauline epistles. So much truth so bluntly put. In his second letter to the peeps at Corinth he was divulging more information about himself and about the servant he was in Christ. He had become comfortable with them and wanted to sharemore about himself so that they may understand where he was coming from. He was trying to be real.
In Chapter 12, he talks about this thorn in his flesh that satan sent to torment him. But that thorn kept him grounded in Christ and kept him accountable for who he was in Christ Jesus. This thorn, a messenger of satan, actually kept this man real with himself, with others and with his Savior. Boy did that plan go awry. That thorn was meant to torment him, send him to a personal hell, and to make his journey near impossible. Instead, it gave him courage, strength, energy, and the will to continue on his path.
I pray that this next year we are given the courage, strength, energy and will to continue on our path even when satan continues to go to the ends of the earth to stop us dead in our tracks.
May we never lose focus on the one that's grace is enough.
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