My Thoughts Today

I probably will not be posting a whole lot this semester. I am taking online courses that are taking up a lot of my time. One thing that may be changing soon is where we go to church. There are several reasons. My husband and I will be praying about it. We want to be somewhere where we can feel "connected" to other people that can hold us accountable. We want to be where God wants us to be. I'm sad because I was looking forward to starting a praise team, but it means nothing if it's not where we're going to grow and become part of a family.

As far as my personal growth as a Christian, I think I have my good days and my bad days. I get in a mode where I study my Bible everyday and write down verses that help me. Then I'll go a stretch without opening my Bible. I do continuously pray as I always have. I'm still guilty of following my own agenda and not God's a lot of times. I have no excuses. My goal now is to be set apart. Like I posted early in the summer, I feel a lot of times like I don't let enough of Jesus shine through me. I feel like I just blend in with everyone else sometimes - Christians and non-Christians.

I'll end this post with what I read this morning:

...all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. Romans 3:23-24

I am still amazed at God's grace. There is a song called, "Who Am I?" That's the thought that runs through my head everyday. None of us deserve His grace. It just brings me to tears to think about how much He loves us.

Correction

I decided to delete my previous post due to errors. Also I do not want to talk about certain things, people, etc. until I know the facts.


I was wrong about what the perserverance of the saints actually means. I looked back at the website that I mentioned in the last post. Basically, perseverance of the saints is another word for "once saved, always saved" or "eternal security." So I worded it wrong on the last post. I'm getting confused because I keep getting different definitions! Having said that, there is such a thing as "conditional" perseverance of the saints. That is them term that means you are saved on the condition that you don't lose your faith or turn from God. (Lots more to that, but I write it all now). It is amazing how much information you can find on this topic! Well, it's late and I need to go to bed. I just had to correct my mistake from yesterday.