Grace

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. - 2 Cor. 12:9

Recently I've been contemplating God's grace, a concept that I hadn't given much thought to before. These words of Dallas Willard are what started me down this road: "Grace is God acting in our lives to bring about what we do not deserve and cannot accomplish on our own." (How Does the Disciple Live?)

The promise of God's grace makes it possible for me to both surrender to His will and to feel confident in it. For a long time, when I tried to work out which way to go or what action to take in my life, I would think through all I knew and then pray about it, hoping to get some sort of direction. Often I do not, so I would make a decision and then remind myself that anything can happen. Depending on my mood, I would project the "anything" to be either bad or good. Now my practice is to make the commitment to God daily that I will surrender to His will and trust in His grace. After doing that, saying "anything can happen" brings a sense of wonder rather than a tendency to predict. Awareness of God's grace help me to let go and live in the present, totally trusting in God.