Grace in Review
Weird title I know, but I am trying to fit two things in to one.
As far as the week goes, it was 7 days, 24 hours each. We didn't do much outside the norm.
Boys are into polo. Better season than last. They have won twice as many games as last season. The term is over. There is good and bad. I will talk to that point in a minute.
This morning everyone helped out with an Eagle Project, except me. I had to work. Bro. B's oldest organized a 5k. Entry fees were 10 cans or $10 cash. All proceeds went to the FACT. It sounds like it was fun. Snack Pack directed runners/walkers. Puddin, the Professor, and the Queen all ran/walked. Puddin came in 3rd. The Professor did it in 30. The Queen finished.
There is the review, now on to the Grace.
This has been a subject that has been on my mind as I read a post from a friend last week. This individual had done all that he could think of to make things happen in his life. When he could think of nothing more, he stopped, knelt, and communed with his Savior and Redeemer. He plead for Grace.
Some of you may think, What? That was not Grace. Where is this old man coming from?
But he did. The more I study, the more I understand. Read the definition:
As far as the week goes, it was 7 days, 24 hours each. We didn't do much outside the norm.
Boys are into polo. Better season than last. They have won twice as many games as last season. The term is over. There is good and bad. I will talk to that point in a minute.
This morning everyone helped out with an Eagle Project, except me. I had to work. Bro. B's oldest organized a 5k. Entry fees were 10 cans or $10 cash. All proceeds went to the FACT. It sounds like it was fun. Snack Pack directed runners/walkers. Puddin, the Professor, and the Queen all ran/walked. Puddin came in 3rd. The Professor did it in 30. The Queen finished.
There is the review, now on to the Grace.
This has been a subject that has been on my mind as I read a post from a friend last week. This individual had done all that he could think of to make things happen in his life. When he could think of nothing more, he stopped, knelt, and communed with his Savior and Redeemer. He plead for Grace.
Some of you may think, What? That was not Grace. Where is this old man coming from?
But he did. The more I study, the more I understand. Read the definition:
Grace -...divine means of help or strength, given through the
bounteous mercy and love of Jesus Christ
It is part of the Atonement. It is available to us whenever, wherever, and for whatever, we need it for. The hardest and most challenging part of Grace is that we need to ask for it.
We know that there are just things we cannot do, many associate Grace with the resurrection, because we just cannot figure out how that is going to happen. We need divine intervention to make it happen.
But there is more too it than that. We can receive the same intervention in even those things that seem trivial. Lets face it, mortal life is not easy. We each have specific weaknesses and challenges. Christ gave himself, that he might help us overcome those weaknesses and challenges. However, there was a small caveat in his sacrifice. He gave, that we might have agency. In order to follow the laws of justice and mercy, he cannot infringe upon our agency without us giving him permission to do so, otherwise the laws would be broken. We have to give him permission to intervene. We have to humble ourselves as a little child and ask for his help.
What a marvelous privilege. We can ask for it in anything where we have weakness. Health, strength, energy, understanding, endurance, pain, esteem, anxiety, fear, or even the weakness of pride. WOW! He will help us overcome, endure, or succeed, if we will but ask and give him permission to do so.
Just be careful. You may get what you ask for, but it may not come in the way you envisioned it. You have to be willing to accept the assistance however, whenever, and wherever it is given.
Learn more about it yourself. Pray for the understanding. Make it happen.
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