![]() ![]() We have not achieved perfection, or lived life without challenges and heartache. Every one of the ladies at Grit and Grace Life has done so ourselves. If you have made that commitment to Christ I would love to hear of it. So please forgive me, come into my life and into my heart. I accept that what You did on the cross was done for me. I’m a sinner who can’t fix anything myself. I believe that you came to this earth because you love me and want to live with me. He requires no grand words, just a simple prayer extended to Him that goes something like this… He doesn’t require anything of you but your heart there is nothing you can do to clean up the mess of this world, or the mess of your life. To accept the path He created and cross that bridge He built is simple: just ask Him. And to believe that through His act we can live with Him now and live with Him forever. To accept this sacrifice that He made, the only One that would take the sin we possess and suffer the punishment we deserve. All it takes on our part is to admit that we need Him. Jesus has every desire that we walk it with Him. To a relationship with Him in this world, and perfection in the one hereafter. He conquered death, rising from His grave three days later to extend to us that bridge back to a relationship with Him. ![]() His death didn’t end His story, but began the hope that we have today. His was an act of grit unparalleled before or since. His example to us of doing what none of us would makes any agony, pain, or hardship we endure pale in comparison. He understood it was for us, those that He loves. Not when execution would be at its most humane, but when it was meted out with delight in the pain of the executed. He truly showed His love for us in choosing this moment in time to make His sacrifice. To die on a cross was the most agonizing, horrific means of execution in the history of mankind. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine” (Luke 22:42). He fervently prayed, “Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. He was entirely human and had no desire to take the steps He knew were ahead of Him. He showed His grit when He chose to follow the path to His death. This is grace that we can only hope to extend to others. He looked at us, just as we are, and was deeply, entirely in love with each and every one of us. He never asked that we become good, act nice, or become lovely first. The Bible tells us “But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners” (Romans 5:8, NLT). He showed His grace in while we did absolutely nothing to earn it or deserve it, He came to give His life for us. ![]() He demonstrated to us, through His choices, the perfected nature of grit and grace. His life was one of sorrow, His death one of agony. He loved us too much for that to be the end of the story. He was the only permanent means to remove the sin we possess and become the bridge for God to once again walk with us. He entered this world born completely human, yet He was God’s Son and completely God. There was only one way to fix this, accomplished by the One who had no sin. He cannot dwell among our sin, so the separation was established that we would not have Him daily at our side. Yet they chose-as we do every day-to create a dividing wall between their imperfect humanity and a perfect God. It was His desire, His purpose from the very beginning. This world began when He did walk beside the humans He created. The amazing part of this statement is not that life is hard, it’s that we have a God, Creator of the universe, who not only loves us but truly wants to walk this journey with us. My own journey has proven this to be true. I do realize that learning this lesson only comes by living it. I can assure you that without is so very much more difficult.” Of course, she looked at me with the face of an 18-year-old, her expression reading, “Really mom? I can’t wait to get on that plane and prove to the universe of the grown ups that I am among you and now I am free. I followed that with a statement I knew to be true in my own life: “You have two ways to do this journey called life, with God or without God. She had yet to face much of life’s reality that she would be venturing into. When I was loading the car to fly my elder daughter off to college, I stopped and made her look me in the eye to tell her this: “Life is hard.” Not sure why that was on my mind except that whether she knew it or not, up until that time in her life she had been fairly, though not entirely, insulated. ![]()
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