God's unmerited grace

Unexpected simplicity.
Divine complexity.
Unfathomed mystery.
Extreme capacity.

Favored compassion.
Increasing action.
Copious attention.
Lovely expression.

Pleasurable sweetness.
Respectable kindness.
Desirable loviliness.
Laughable joyfulness.

God's unmerited grace.

I forgot Grace

Well, all that xtreme talk and I forgot about the Grace. After all that's the most Xtreme. His grace. If it weren't for His grace, where oh where would I be?? If He can extend His Xtreme Grace, shouldn't I be an Xtreme follower? 2 Cor. 12:9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.



Thank you Lord, for pouring your grace all over me, again and again and again. I looked up the definition of the word. Mercy, clemency, pardon. In my weakness, He pardons me, He gives me clemency, He slathers me in His mercy........and I don't deserve it. Never have. Never will. But I will boast about my weaknesses all the more, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

Xtreme Grace

Why should I blog? Well why not? God sends me lots of thoughts, and if nothing else, this will be a journal of those thoughts. Maybe no one else will even read it, but oh well.....it'll be fun.

I've been thinking alot about being Xtreme, at which I'm seemingly caught in just the mundane. Christ laid it on my heart the other night, that I should be an Xtreme Christ follower. Now I've been a Christian for years but I'm feeling the urgency of this life and that time is short. I felt like God was showing me that the X in xtreme is a "sideways cross." A cross on the move. When Christ called his followers to follow Him, He said "take up your cross and follow me." Matthew 16:24 If we are really carrying our cross, it is a cross on the move and will be in the form of a sideways cross. An X. He told us to do that before He ever went to the cross Himself. Now the hard part, am I taking up the cross? Is it moving forward? Is it on the move. Or is it straight up, at a standstill? How about yours?

God of Wonders......

Psalm 8:3-4, 9 “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”
Have you ever really sat down and considered the heavens? When I look at these verses and I really ponder the vastness of the God of the Universe, and the smallness of each of us, I am so humbled. I want to fall on my face before Him! How can we comprehend that the Most Majestic God is mindful of us? Why in the world would He be??? The word that comes to my mind is love. He loves us. Yes, He created the heavens, He set the moon and stars in place, but He LOVES us. I just shake my head in amazement. He can do anything He wants, yet He loves us. Indescribable! Significant insignificance, in my eyes. Significant importance in His eyes. Are you having a difficult week this week? Feeling insignificant? Then consider the astronomical grace of our Heavenly Father. You are the apple of His eye, He knows and calls you by name! Put your name in the following blanks: "I have loved you________________ with an everlasting love; I have drawn you _________________with loving-kindness. Therefore I tell you,____________ do not worry about your life…..Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you__________ not much more valuable than they?”
Bask in His love today! Scripture references: Jer. 31:3, Matt.6: 25, 26