This is a quote from the book " Disciplined by Grace" By J.F. Strombeck.
"The discipline of grace brings to mind and the soul the goodness and beauty of God, His unfailing lve, and His all inclusive provision. When the heart sees this goondess of God and riches of His grace; the pleasures, preferment, and honor and wealth fo the world lose their glamour. They are seen as temporal in contrast to the eternal values of God. The believer who realizes that through grace, and grace alone, he has been saved out of the lost and condemed world unto an indescribably glorious eternity with God sets his affection on thins above-- not ont hings of this earth. It is the work of grace to create and sustain this attitde.
Ethics can teach men to deny the dishonest, immoral, and debased things of this world; but grace alone can teach the believer to deny himself the beautiful, attriactive and pleasant things with which God is not identified. By grace the believer has been called out of th unglodly world and delivered form the condemnation resting upon it. By grace he is alos delivered from the things of the world, and his desires become centered in Christ and the things of Him. ......... True Christian liberty is delieverancefrom the law of sin in the body with its desires for the pleasures of the world."
The topic of God's grace has been something that has been rocking my world. This page in this book says it all. God's grace is bigger than I think it is and bigger than I could ever imagine!!!
PRAISE HIM!!
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