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Saturday... Accept this gift. Yes accept it.


Saturday... Accept this gift. Yes accept it.

It is so easy to lament over lost opportunities. Paul writing to the church of Corinth says in 6:1 (NLT), "As God's partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of kindness and then ignore it." The NIV puts it this way, "As God's co-workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain."

Our God is such a good God. Each morning we need to wake up with a thankful heart for all that God has done and is doing for us and through us. 

Now over in Psalm 137:1 (NLT) it says, "Beside the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept as we thought about Jerusalem." You see, God had given his Children, chance after chance to follow Him but now they have been captured and their home Jerusalem had been destroyed.

God gives us so much each day and we really need to be thankful. Again Paul says in 2 Corinthians 6:1-2, "As God's partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of God's kindness and then ignore it. For God says, 'At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.' (Isaiah 49:8) Indeed the 'right time' is now. Today is the day of salvation."

God is so good to us. Over and over God is so good to us. If we stop and think about what we have gone through in these past few years we can see how God has been so kind to us. Even in our despair and in our griping He continued ti give us over and over His grace, His unmerited favor. As Isaiah reminded his people, God heard them and He helped them and the same has been true of us. 

And as the NIV puts it,  "As God's co-workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain." Nothing that has happened did not first go through God's grace to turn it from something bad into something that can be good if we realize it was for our good and thank Him for it and let Him use it.

So let's not waist what God is doing in our lives. Verses 1 & 2 in the NIRV says, "We work together with God. So we are asking you not to receive God's grace and then do nothing with it. He says, 'When I had mercy on you, I heard you. On the day I saved you, I helped you.' (Isaiah 49:8) I tell you, now is the time God has mercy. Now is the day He saves." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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