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VOTE! I suggest you vote for the unborn, that they may have their chance at life. Did you know that a baby has its own blood; not its mother’s. And its DNA is from both parents, not just the women’s. So, that little baby is not the woman’s body, but another person. Vote for them!
Jesus in Luke 19 is enroute to Jerusalem for the Passover with great crowds of Jews following Him. He tells the story of a nobleman going to a distant country who first gives a mina to each of 10 slaves. They were told to put the mina to work – not work themselves.
When the nobleman returns he asks what’s become of his mina. He doesn’t ask how successful they were. It’s their faithfulness that was rewarded.
It is the master’s mina from his work, yet the servants reap the benefit. For us, the mina represents the grace of God revealed to us through his Son. Jesus has “worked” and our part is to receive what He has paid for. It’s grace, for in the economy of grace, as 2 Peter 1:3, says, everything we need for life and godliness is freely supplied by Jesus.
The first two slaves were commended for their faithfulness. But one slave had a terrible misconception of the heart of God! He returned the mina, describing the master as fearsome, demanding, reaping where he did not sow. Are you like that, not knowing the love of God, believing you are measured by your performance here and fearful of judgment to come in heaven?
That’s wrong, my friend! It’s time to receive the love of God, It’s time to receive His amazing grace for all things. His grace, received, shared, sown will reproduce the supernatural life of God and release the favor of heaven.
How do we put His grace to work? I suggest by sharing the good things that God has given us. The grace-mina of God comes in limitless varieties. The spiritual gifts of 1 Corinthians 12. Your God-given abilities, desires and the passions that are uniquely you. The expressions of your Father’s character that He has graced you with, uniquely, and through which He will bless others!
Steven Curtis Chapman wrote a song, “The Great Adventure.” It begins with him waking up, determining to do better than before — then realizing the Bible told him he had been a prisoner, but God’s grace had set him free. With that, he saw a great frontier in front of him and voice saying, “Let’s go!”
Let’s go my friend, we’ve got a trail to blaze, through the wild blue yonder of God’s Amazing grace. It’s time to follow Jesus into the Glorious unknown. Faith-filled and far from long-faced religion.
It’s what you and I were created for. It is a life like no other. It is the life of someone – who has COME ALIVE!
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