The best thing about being blessed is you won’t be able to
contain it to yourself. One way or
another you must share it. When you feel
the love of God overflows, you have no alternative course of action but to
share it.
Everyone has a story to tell. What’s your story?
It doesn't matter if it isn't the best story in the whole
world. It is okay even if it is not “for
Hollywood” or a novel-like story. It is
your story. And because it is your
story, it hasn't ended yet. You can
still make it as one of the best stories ever written. Who would stop you?
What’s my kind of story?
It’s a story of grace. A story of
second-chances (lots of it, actually), of mercy and forgiveness. It is a story of hope. Hope that comes from God.
Many people would raise their eyebrows if ever they read
this article, (if they really read it) especially the ones who knew me so
well.
“Well, that’s not the Roy we know,” they will probably
say.
And I won’t blame them.
This isn't the life I intended to live.
This isn't the life I wanted.
Very much so, this isn't the life I have lived. But by God’s grace, I am living the life I thought
I never deserved. God is putting
blessings in our tables, who are we to say no? After all, these are not ours to
keep but to share to everyone.
Twenty-fourteen is really starting to be a great year for
us. Not because there is such a thing as
great year but because we resolved to make it greater than 2013. And we know God hears our prayers, He is
making Himself felt in more ways than one.
Why did I say my story is a story of second chances? Because I've failed in the past... many
times. But God never gave-up on me. He keeps on giving me another chance to try
again and make it right the second time around.
Most of the time, that second time becomes
second-time-version-seven-zero. And His message is clear - He is not giving up on you, too!
I won’t give you a list of my failures. There’s nothing romantic with failing. But there’s nothing to be ashamed about it
either. In failing we learn. And my failures have been the instruments God
used to make me see life clearer. He
picks me up every time I fall and He lets me walk my way again. That's how forgiving God is and that's how much He believes in us.
God has been so good that I can boast about
it. And I boast about the goodness and
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ – not for what He has done – but for Who HE is.
Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.” - 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (The Message)
In the articles after this, you will be reading about
God’s grace and mercy. It’s all about
how to LIVE THE GOOD LIFE after all, isn't it?
I’m not talking about my faith, I am talking about God’s grace. Those are two totally different things. Faith is something you give to God and share
with people. It’s imperfect just as you are. But grace – God’s grace – is perfect
because it comes from One who is Perfect.
Today, when your faith is called by the Lord to be lived, through
His grace, how would you answer? I, I
choose to be brave.
