10 Grace Tips by Janet Chester Bly
I need grace tips. When the subject grace comes up, I realize how short I fall in gracious thoughts, words and deeds. It’s a test of how close to God I am. How well I know Him. How much His heart is in me. I need His grace tips.
God is the epitome, the originator of grace. My late husband author and pastor Stephen Bly had this definition for grace: “God’s love freely given to guilty sinners in defiance of what they deserve.”
How well do I know the God of grace?
I know a few things. He is a very personal God, like the best kind of father. He values my friendship and accepts my puny offering of love. I can read and study in his book about his grace tips. Every mistake I’ve made and each sin I’ve confessed, he has forgiven. He cares as much for every quirky, annoying person in my world.
10 Grace Tips
How can I give out a measure of the grace God has shown to me?
1. Look for ways to cooperate with sincere people.
2. Presume every person I come in contact with today is worthy of my attention and concern.
3. Face the facts as I know them of every situation.
4. Correct my thinking when presented with new, credible information.
5. Don’t speak unless I’m sure of the truth, in order to correct, but not to argue.
6. Determine to live by the truth, but be patient with those whose faith is weak.
7. Compromise when I can. But don’t seek peace at any price. Keep with my godly compass. Line out my limits. Determine how far I’ll go. And no more. That’s smart grace.
8. When deception’s exposed, help the guilty face the consequences. Not with smugness or gleeful cheers. That’s no kind of grace.
9. Don’t stay in the ditch of devastation. God is never caught by surprise. He knows everything . . . the private, most dastardly plots, the heart’s deepest betrayal. Yet he dispenses grace.
10. Trust in God’s deep, far-reaching, powerful grace for my neighbor and the most undeserving.
“Try to help those who argue against you. Be merciful to those who doubt. Save some by snatching them as from the very flames of hell itself” (Jude 22,23 NLT)What are your grace tips? How are you showing grace to the people around you?Copyright©2010This post adapted from “31 Ways To Win The Fight For Personal Peace”, available as free download: https://www.blybooks.com/free-download-stuff/
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Two Bly Books On Grace
1) The Surprising Side of Grace by Stephen Bly … what you love and what you hate reveals a lot about you. We need to know God’s loves and hates too. To understand who He really is. Knowing God includes knowing His grace, but also His loving anger.FIND IT HERE: SURPRISING SIDE OF GRACE
And check out this “Frontier Faith” AUDIO PODCAST by Stephen Bly FRONTIER FAITH
You might also enjoy “What Every Child Deserves to Know” article and AUDIO PODCAST here WHAT EVERY CHILD DESERVES
2) Grace Spilling Over by Janet Chester Bly includes 61 devotionals. New release adapted from Hope Lives Here and God Is Good All The Time.
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