{"id":2310,"date":"2020-07-16T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:26:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:26:26","slug":"have-you-accepted-the-gift-god-is-offering-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/16\/have-you-accepted-the-gift-god-is-offering-you\/","title":{"rendered":"HAVE YOU ACCEPTED THE GIFT GOD IS OFFERING YOU?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThis righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.\u201d (Romans 3:22-24 NIV)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s grace is waiting for your acceptance.  Each day His mercies are new.  You have the choice to accept His gift, or reject it.  We all reject God\u2019s grace at some time or another.  We don\u2019t feel like we\u2019re worthy of the gift, therefore we can\u2019t accept it.  But that isn\u2019t true.  We may not deserve grace, but we can still receive it.  The truth is, Jesus died for you.  His actions were grace filled for you and me.  He died so we could live free from the constraints of this world.  In Him we find life anew.  But not until we accept  the gift Jesus gave us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s grace is waiting for your acceptance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m listening to a book titled, \u201cHelp, Thanks, Wow\u201d<\/a> by Anne Lamont<\/a>.  The book is about prayer.  Anne talks about our need for prayer, to believe in a higher power.  A recent Gallup Pol<\/a>l found 87% of people believe in God.  The three prayers people pray the most, according to Lamont: help, thanks, wow!  In order for us to have a prayer relationship with God, we have to accept these three truths:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are so ruined.  We are so loved.  We are in charge of so little.\u201d  Anne Lamont<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To receive God\u2019s grace, we need to be honest with ourselves.\u00a0 We need to understand our circumstances so we can realistically respond to them.\u00a0 I understand, I am a sinner.\u00a0 I will continue to sin as long as I live.\u00a0 Sinning is part of the human condition.\u00a0 But I am also thoroughly loved by God.\u00a0 His love came from heaven and rescued a sinner like me.\u00a0 In His grace, I give authority to Him.\u00a0 I trust His will for my life. I know He is in control of what I can\u2019t control. \u00a0 The same truth that applies to my life, applies to your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we accept God\u2019s grace for our lives, we take ourselves off the hook.  Fish flail wildly when hooked.  Sometimes they manage to free themselves, but most of the time they don\u2019t.  Once caught, freedom is difficult. We can feel caught on the hook of life. But we can, through prayer and acceptance, let ourselves off the hook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrayer is when we take ourselves off the hook and put God on the hook, which is where He should be.\u201d  Priest Bill Rankin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pray right now and accept God\u2019s gift of grace for your life.  Put Him on the hook, see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you accepted God\u2019s gift yet?
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Further Reading: <\/strong>1 Chronicles 22:1-23:32 NIV<\/a>, Romans 3:9-31 NIV<\/a>, Psalm 12 NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 19:13-14 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.\u201d (Romans 3:22-24 NIV) God\u2019s grace is… Continue reading HAVE YOU ACCEPTED THE GIFT GOD IS OFFERING YOU?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}