Grace

I was sitting in my room last night feeling all lonely and basically throwing myself a nice pity-party about my lack of "a life" etc. I had pandora radio on while I was crocheting a baby blanket for my nephew and this song came on. I'm not really sure why the words caught my attention, but they did and I googled the lyrics for the song, Grace, by Laura Story.


"My heart is so proud. My mind is so unfocused.
I see the things You do through me as great things I have done. And now You gently break me, then lovingly You take me and hold me as my father and mold me as my maker.

Chorus:
I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?
And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abound?"
And you answer: " My child, I love you.
And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."

At times I may grow weak and feel a bit discouraged, knowing that someone, somewhere could do a better job. For who am I to serve You?I know I don't deserve You. And that's the part that burns in my heart and keeps me hanging on.

Chorus*
I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?
And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abounds?"
And you answer: " My child, I love you.
And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."
You are so patient with me, Lord.

As I walk with You, I'm learning what Your grace really means. The price that I could never pay was paid at Calvary. So, instead of trying to repay You, I'm learning to simply obey You
by giving up my life to you For all that You've given to me.

Chorus:
I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?
And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abounds?"
And you answer: " My child, I love you.
And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."


Just reading through it a few times made me realize how true a lot of that is in my own life. I needed that slap-in-the-face to remind me that, "you know what, Roberta? I am still in control. I still have an amazingly perfect plan for your life and each trial you are facing is only to bring you to Myself because I love you." God loves ME! How exciting..yet how often I skip over this fact and instead seek out my own ideas of what love is...

On a brighter note...I am still learning..and still applying to my life. I was once again reminded of the happiness and joy He will give me when I obey Him, even in small things and in the hard things. God's joy is the best!! Never have I felt anything like it when living for myself.