Graced with Grace

Do you ever think about how many times each day God protects you. It is so easy to get in to our daily routine and not ever even think about how God is protecting us each day, until you almost end up in a car accident or some other not-every-day scenario. When this happens you are suddenly awakened to the fact that God was really protecting you. But what about the times when you may not have seen that you were in danger and so you never even knew that God was protecting you. Well, the truth is God is protecting you every single day from numerous things that could have happened to you yet didn’t. Every single day God is looking after each one of his children. Isn’t it wonderful that we have such a loving heavenly Father. “As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a SHIELD to all who trust in Him. 2 Samuel 22:31” “He shall cover you with his feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge: His truth shall be your SHIELD and buckler. Psalm 91:4” “Every word...

There are two things that I just recently observed. The first was that of an older woman who was obviously dying (and in fact did die) and whether or not she was a Christian and went to heaven I do not know. The other thing that I observed or saw was beautiful huge houses that were owned by obviously very wealthy people. But if you think about it then what is going to happen to the people that own these houses? They are going to die and go either to heaven or hell, just as the older lady did. And then what will happen to their houses? Well, I can tell you one thing and that is that they are not taking that house to either of those places. Most likely what will happen to those houses is for a while they might be kept up, but eventually no one will be able to afford to keep it up and it will begin to rust, rot and deteriorate just as everything else on this earth will (see Matthew 6:19). So then for most of these houses it was wasted money and time. Instead of using their money or time f...