A couple weeks ago I was going through Lifeway Christian Bookstore searching for a book. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular, when my eyes were drawn to a book about the Chronicles of Narnia. I love C. S. Lewis' books.
As I looked at the beautifully depicted lion, "Aslan"... I saw behind this, was another attractively bound book. I pulled it out and saw the title, "Costly Grace" by Jon Walker.
I hurriedly flipped it open and my eyes were drawn to the quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer under the heading, Chapter 15. It gripped my heart and I knew this book would be coming home with me. God had a distinct word and this was his leading. (Even if he had to use "Aslan" to guide me to it. lol)
Bonhoeffer: "True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs. That makes God the sole object of our prayers, and frees us from a false confidence in our own personal efforts."
My heart was warmed at this reminder that it is God and God's Grace alone.
At times while reading this book I rejoiced and other times I wept by how much my reflection in God's mirror had been anything but the grace that the Lord has extended to all mankind.
Grace has been such a timely word in a timely season from God that even during a revival that my husband and I recently attended at a sister church, the topic of the Evangelist was also that of The Mark of God's Grace and how if we have HIS Grace operating in our lives it will make us GRACIOUS!
"True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs. That makes God the sole object of our prayers, and frees us from a false confidence in our own personal efforts."
"Oh to GRACE how great a debtor!"
My journey of grace is this:
No longer am I a debtor to sin because of Christ's finished work, but because of that miraculous work, all Christians are in a continual state of mercy and grace as we walk together with Christ our Lord on this journey homeward.
