Sunday Report — eternal grace
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We Should Walk In Them

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God grows faith through grace. Once we are born into His care, we become part of God’s grace culture.  This unique system of living is sourced in God Himself. Every circumstance of our life reaches into His personal nerve center because we have been bought and brought back into God’s personal family becoming children of God. His loving response to His children, who are in Christ, is an ability gifted to each believer according to God’s purposes  and our need. This is called grace. 

Our faith is joined to grace and has divine purposes.  We grow in Christ through our faith by His grace. Growing in Him is preparation, while in our flesh, for ruling with Him during His earthly millennium kingdom and then reigning with Him eternally. 

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God’s Faith Forest

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What a privilege to participate in God’s righteous nature and while actually being absorbed in His grace, gaining a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. This is what happens when we are born  spiritually of God. God is a Spirit and His Holy Spirit reveals spiritual things of Christ to us after we become a child of God, not of the flesh or the will of man, but of God Himself. We become Spiritually alive when we are born of God.

This puts our life at a very high level. Our life embarks into a Spiritual strata which can be mystifying and difficult to grasp.  Our new Spiritual eyes do not easily discern spiritual things.  We become Spiritually aware  but  often it is easier to revert to a habit of personal comfort and natural living.  The walk of faith is not for the faint. There is a battle here.  It is not mystic, but real.

This is our third consecutive faith discussion. We are still in the parking lot of  this great Faith Forest of redwoods.  But even in the parking lot a whiff of the air draws us into the wonder of something far larger and profound than mere humanity. On foot, under 300 feet high redwoods, old enough to have been alive while Jesus walked the earth, is a provocative setting to consider faith. These massive trees suggest powerful purposes and the God of this forest is our living Redeemer  soliciting our participating in what He is doing. And we say, “I’ll think about it. Can I get back to you?”  Oh, the darkness of our small minds!