If Grace is An Ocean, We're All Sinking

What does it mean to be a Christian? What is this label I wear? Is it a label? No, really it is like being called "daughter, son, beloved"...it is a sign of Who I belong to and nothing about who I am.

It is about letting go of me and embracing more and more of Him. It is a journey, this life as His follower, to walk as He would have walked, to love those who are in need, to care to stop and lend a hand, to pause and listen and not judge. To live large and full. To choose to honor your husband, your wife, your parents, to love your children no matter what, to forgive all who harm you, to know that you too have caused pain, to live with Him guiding your choices, to share your resources to help others, to use your gifts to the best of your ability, to remember to rest in Him and not break laws that in the end, destroy you.

He is the judge, the only one and cautions us not to be. He gave me a job, one job, to love, to be like Him and to leave all the rest to Him. He tells me He will judge me with the measure I use to judge others. He gave me the only job I am capable of, to empty myself of me. To lay down my pettiness, smallness, anger, selfishness and to allow Him to enter me and fill me with the only good inside, from His glorious grace.

"..If Grace is an Ocean, we're all sinking"....

When I told Him I loved Him I was marked as His. Christian. Christ in me. He tells me that nothing will separate us now that I am His. All around me may leave or may at some time stop loving or caring about me. He will not. No power in earth or any where can take that from me.

"See I have engraved you on the palms of my hands"...it is His loving nature that makes this so amazing. Nothing in me has earned this or ever will. This is 100% Him.

He loves all of us. Not just a select few. No matter where you are and if you ask Him to, He will love you all the days of your life and beyond.

I am supposed to share the message. It is simple. His message, not mine. He waits for you. He is in love with you too. He stands at the door. He is patient and will continue to wait for you. He took the barriers down to allow us to be with God freely. He did it for me and for you. The message is all that is needed. I am not to add to it. Just help point out the Way. That is all.

Instead Christian has become known for something else, but sadly, nothing in that label, the one that society knows, reflects Him.

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