No Out-Pacing

How's this for a refreshing truth regarding our relationship with God?

You can't outpace God's grace.

You're welcome... I'll be here all week.

Actually, it was funny; earlier this morning, between a conversation and two messages with the span of an hour and all three of them touched on Adam & Eve in the garden and breaking of man's relationship with God and what transpired. We've all done stupid; and as Dave Ramsey likes to say, stupid with zero's attached.

But isn't incredible, that God's grace exceeds all.

Pastor stated it quite nicely during Sunday morning's message as well.

"God's better at loving you, than you are at destroying yourself."

And isn't interesting, the positions we find ourselves, where we thing perhaps we are safe; that there's a veil or a protection... foolishly thinking like Adam did, that a temporal covering will cause God to not take a second glance. People will go so far as to seek leadership and places of prominence, hedging bets that they won't get called out more often than not. There's even the tendency to want to hide behind ministry... for who will make sure they are spending enough time in the Word and in prayer and the like.

Granted, that eventually, hopefully will become obvious if they aren't, then again, we'd probably be surprised how long many have slid under the spiritual radar of their church community. Yet as horrible and disconcerting as that is, for all the mistakes we make, especially in positions of leadership, God's grace exceeds our ability to outrun it.

That shouldn't be permission to run further, but an invitation to make a course correction and live within its' sufficiency.

So pray, this #seniorPastorMonday for those who are, for whatever reason, attempting to outrun and outpace God's grace. Perhaps they are caught in a pattern that they can't break or feel as though they are beyond a point of no return, may God extend  His love, compassion and conviction to bring them back from the brink. Pray that they would neither burn out from the responsibilities of the church nor hind behind it to neglect their relationship. May a genuine and active faith prove to show their health and ministry to be effective day in and day out. Pray the lies of the enemy would be silenced and his tricks thwarted. Pray for a return to the living and basking in the presence of God rather than our sinful desire to move beyond that relationship in search of something that would be of eternal detriment.

For the glory of God
And the cause of Jesus Christ.

- PNC