Let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean Hebrews 10:22

Sometimes along our journey we feel or have some kind of sense that God is not interested in the details of our lives. That feeling or sense is real, but it is not telling us the truth. Here again we have in God's Word a wonderful picture of his grace working in and through our lives. We are invited to come into his presence with our full emotions and intellect, allowing the faith and grace he has given to express itself before him. And here again we are reminded that we now have no condemnation, guilt or shame because of the blood of Christ. So on this new day, may you enjoy your journey of grace and go right into his presence with the details of your life. He desires your good and your refreshment is his delight. So smile, relax and let your heart give thanks to the Lord for his joy in you.

He who listens to a life-giving rebuke will be at home among the wise. Proverbs 15:31

Our natural nature that we are born with does not like being told what to do and if left on its own has a very difficult time listening to correction for it feels like criticism. Grace, however, gives us a different ability to hear, see and understand. When living overwhelmed by grace we do not hear a rebuke as criticism, but as a good voice to help and encourage us along our journey. This being true, we actually feel refreshed, encouraged, loved and valued. On this new day, may you enjoy the journey of God's grace that gives you the freedom to receive input from others and allows you to walk and live among the wise. Your home, work and community will never be the same and you will see your world with new eyes. Your day will be a delight. Enjoy!

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:17

The natural nature we are born with along our entire journey through this life, gives us moment after moment of feelings of low self-esteem, guilt, condemnation, stress and the inability to forgive well. Many feel that God looks at them the same way they feel about themselves and as they view others. But the grace of God is completely different. He cannot say it any clearer than this - God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Grace in Jesus the Christ is a salvation that gives us the freedom to no longer be mastered by our old sinful nature. It does not mean that it is gone, it is no longer the controller of our life. This freedom of grace brings encouragement, kindness, refreshment and forgiveness in the midst of life's opportunities. On this new day, enjoy this freedom of grace that is in you because of Jesus the Christ. His grace will renew your emotions, thinking, words and your view of others. Being overwhelmed by grace is not just a statement, it is a freedom in the very fiber of your being to live delighted in the Lord, in who you are and blessing those you meet. Enjoy!

This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God's wonderful grace. Colossians 1:6

What a beautiful picture of the salvation that is given in Jesus the Christ. This is obviously not a religion or a set of standards by which we must prove ourselves to God. God's good news is his grace that renews thoughts, emotions and desires. Paul gave a hint of the power of God's grace in a man or woman's life when he wrote to the Galatians. But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. There is no law against these things. Galatians 5:22,23 NLT. This salvation which is here called - changed lives - brings freedom that refreshes you and your family. On this new day may you choose to enjoy a changed life given to you by the Lord, it will bless your socks off. There is nothing in all creation that will find fault with this new nature. So go ahead and live in the freedom that is yours because of Grace. Enjoy!

 

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.  2 Timothy 2:15

There is something wonderful that happens within us when we know we are at our best.  Well, the beauty of God’s grace that is given through Jesus the Christ frees us up so that we may know at any given moment we are at our best.  Grace is powerful and relaxing at the same time.  It is eternal life without any form of condemnation about ourselves and a freedom to give this grace away to everyone we meet along our journey.  Grace gives a rebirth to our character which obviously affects our emotions and thinking.  Grace makes life beautiful and therefore husbands and wives that are full of grace make really good marriages and families.  Today enjoy who you are because of the grace of God.  Believe what our Lord says about you, that he enjoys you and loves you.  Smile right down to the depth of your soul and your life will be the voice, the knowledge and the character of the word of truth. Enjoy

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.  Psalm 42:1, 2

Now that does sound like some kind of a relationship that longs after God.  We are probably living in some of the greatest educational times in history.  For most of us, we really desire much of our relationships and our finances.  Yet even with all this desire we see our families, our businesses, our communities and even our churches somehow being stressed, even though we are believing all the right things.  No matter where we are found, God’s grace can change everything.  In grace there is no stress or anxiety, but there is the great emotion of delighting.  Living in the grace of Jesus the Christ can cultivate a relationship with God our Father that becomes more refreshing, more exciting and more loving along our journey.  Today let his grace give you the joy of longing after Him.  In this place all things become new and your journey will become expressions of all kinds of joy to you and to those you meet.  Today, enjoy the living God.

 

Imitate God, therefore in everything you do because you are his dear children. Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity or greed among you.  Such sins have no place among God’s people.  Obscene stories, foolish talk, and course jokes – these are not for you.  Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.  Ephesians 5:1,3,4 NLT

What is commonly called salvation in Jesus Christ is the freedom that his grace gives to our character.  If the things listed here in God’s Word were so outstanding, we would have stayed in them and rejected the beauty of his grace.  Here we can experience the refreshing nature of grace as it renews our values, our thinking, our emotions and our attitudes towards God, family, friends and co-workers.  Today may you celebrate the freedom you have in his grace to live in the joy of thanksgiving.  Here you can, along with everyone around you, experience a delight in relationships with the Lord and each other. As you live and imitate the freedom of his grace no one will be irritated.  Transparency, kindness and integrity will just be who you are and you really will relax in the freedom of grace.  Enjoy!    

And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.  At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Matthew 27:50,51

The sacrifice of Jesus the Christ was not a religious moment.  It was that which is dead coming into contact with that which is life.  The curtain in the temple separated people from the presence of God and only the high priest could go behind the curtain once a year for the sins of the people.  The curtain represented our sins and the tearing of the curtain, from the top to the bottom was the action of God’s grace upon our sin.  Now because of his grace nothing can separate us from the love and presence of God.  Yet some who have experienced grace for salvation let their sins keep them from the beauty of the life of God that tore the curtain.  Today because of the grace of God in Jesus the Christ may you live in the joy of his presence and love.  No matter where you have been, nothing can separate you now from the life, the love, the grace and the presence of God.  This is a good day to choose to celebrate your life in the Lord.  In his presence all things become new.  Enjoy!

Imitate God, therefore in everything you do because you are his dear children. Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity or greed among you.  Such sins have no place among God’s people.  Obscene stories, foolish talk, and course jokes – these are not for you.  Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.  Ephesians 5:1,3,4 NLT

 What is commonly called salvation in Jesus Christ is the freedom that his grace gives to our character.  If the things listed here in God’s Word were so outstanding, we would have stayed in them and rejected the beauty of his grace.  Here we can experience the refreshing nature of grace as it renews our values, our thinking, our emotions and our attitudes towards God, family, friends and co-workers.  Today may you celebrate the freedom you have in his grace to live in the joy of thanksgiving.  Here you can, along with everyone around you, experience a delight in relationships with the Lord and each other. As you live and imitate the freedom of his grace no one will be irritated.  Transparency, kindness and integrity will just be who you are and you really will relax in the freedom of grace.  Enjoy!

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone.  Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.  1 Thessalonians 5:14,15

 Can you imagine living in a place where people stopped offending, stopped condemning, stopped irritating and stopped sinning against one another?  Living in a place like that, what would marriages be, what would a neighborhood look like, what would be the mood of the community?  Well, this is what is intended to happen to a man or woman who has come into contact with the grace of God given in and through Jesus Christ.  Our nature is renewed with the desire to bless, overwhelm with goodness and forgiveness and to live a life that can be the music people enjoy listening to and seeing.  Today may your journey of grace be the song that everyone can see and hear with joy.  May your marriages, your neighborhood and your community be blessed because of what the grace of our Lord is doing in and through you.  Grace makes you a man or woman of God, so go ahead and delight yourself in our Lord and this new day will blow your hair back.  Enjoy!