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How do we balance the law of God with the grace of God?
Grace isn’t God’s “Plan B.” Grace is the foundation of God’s interaction with His creation.
In the fall, God seperated us from the tree of life after human beings ate the forbidden fruit. But what if doing so was actually life giving?
All that anticipation, all that preparation—and then it amounts to nothing. Do you ever feel like your life is like that? That’s exactly where Ecclesiastes begins, with a preacher who achieved everything a person could want and still found his toil was vanity, a striving after wind.
We encounter the fullness of God’s Wisdom in Jesus.
We want God’s wisdom, yet often what we really want is an advantage—something that makes us look right, strong, and worthy of respect. In James 3:13–17, wisdom from above takes a startlingly different shape: meek conduct, mercy, gentleness, and a willingness to be taught. What does that wisdom ask of us as we wait for Jesus to return?
We all load our suitcases for life with what the world promises will make us wise—predictions, solutions, human answers—yet when Revelation calls for wisdom to understand the beast, it’s asking something far more unsettling: whose wisdom are we actually following?
What does it look like to actually restore relationships and live out the restoration God does in our lives?
We like life easy, so when following Jesus brings bumps instead of the smoother path we expected, we wonder what went wrong. Luke 9 reminds us that Jesus never promised following him would meet that expectation.
God calls us to do His good work — and sometimes that means taking time for rest.
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