#Repost @desiringgod ・・・ "'By The Grace Of God I Am What I Am, And His Grace Toward Me Did Not
#Repost @desiringgod ・・・ "'By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored harder than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.' (1 Corinthians 15:10) Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. This is plain, for example, in 1 Corinthians 15:10. Paul describes grace as the enabling power of his work. It is not simply the pardon of his sins, it is the power to press on in obedience. Therefore the effort we make to obey God is not an effort done in our own strength, but 'in the strength which God supplies, that in everything God may get the glory' (1 Peter 4:11). It is the obedience of faith. Paul confirms this in 2 Thessalonians 1:11–12 by calling our acts of goodness 'works of faith' and by saying that the glory this brings to Jesus is 'according to the grace of God' because it happens 'by [his] power': 'To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfill every good resolve and work of faith by [his] power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.' The obedience that gives God pleasure is produced by the power of God’s grace through faith. The same dynamic is at work at every stage of the Christian life. The power of God’s grace that saves through faith (Ephesians 2:8) is the same power of God’s grace that sanctifies through faith." Read more at desiringGod.org // Link in profile.
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"for me, kneeling over their carcasses is like looking into a macabre mirror. …like the albatross, we [the consumers and polluters of this world] find ourselves lacking the ability to discern anymore what is nourishing from what is toxic to our lives and souls." - chris jordan
chris used a kickstarter campaign to turn this story into a feature length documentary, midway. read more on the great pacific garbage patch.
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#Repost @pilanibubu when in circling, cloudy and confusing transition, the best thing you can do for yourself is to be decisive... making no decision or not taking a stand point is to leave things exactly as they are... because you cannot be trusted really with the next thing, if stationery and stagnant is your stance.... if you are ready or even when you are not ready... just decide and see what happens!! #journeyofaheart #creativelifestyleactivist #dailythoughts #enactdecision
#Repost @robinsharma ・・・ The swiftest way to have a worldly empire is to develop an interior one. Being creative, audacious, authentic and loving delivers fortunes. #InstaQuote
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