Lord give me grace to feel my need of grace. Grace to ask for grace grace to receive grace and, when grace is given, grace to use it. .
If you limit your story to the days between birth & death, you brace yourself for a sad ending. you r made for more than this life.
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.
Nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy. And nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace.
Life on earth is just the first letter of the first sentence in the first chapter of the great story God is writing with your life. .