http://www.scripturezealot.com/2009/04/06/suffering-grace-and-joy/ Bible Blog - Growing Closer to God through the Scriptures Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.scripturezealot.com/2009/04/06/suffering-grace-and-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-14692 Scripture Zealot Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:41:56 +0000 http://www.scripturezealot.com/?p=2019#comment-14692 Thanks for adding to the grace part.<br />Jeff Thanks for adding to the grace part.
Jeff

]]> http://www.scripturezealot.com/2009/04/06/suffering-grace-and-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-14691 Brian Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:51:52 +0000 http://www.scripturezealot.com/?p=2019#comment-14691 I guess above all we thank God for grace.  Grace upon grace and still more grace!  It is grace we need to make it most of the time.  What is grace?  It is knowing God loves and accepts you no matter what, even on the bad days.  That we cannot make him love us more or less than he already does, because he already loves us to the fullest extent of his love - best seen through the cross of Christ.   It is his grace then, the enables us to get through it all.   <a href="/passage/?book_id=53&chapter=15&verse=10&version=72&context=verse" rel="nofollow"><strong>1 Corinthians 15:10</strong></a> (TNIV) has been a theme verse for me: But by the <strong>grace</strong> of God I am what I am, and his <strong>grace</strong> to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the <strong>grace</strong> of God that was with me. I guess above all we thank God for grace.  Grace upon grace and still more grace!  It is grace we need to make it most of the time.  What is grace?  It is knowing God loves and accepts you no matter what, even on the bad days.  That we cannot make him love us more or less than he already does, because he already loves us to the fullest extent of his love – best seen through the cross of Christ.   It is his grace then, the enables us to get through it all.   1 Corinthians 15:10 (TNIV) has been a theme verse for me:
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

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