tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139676684011582364.post3288394228291014744..comments2023-05-16T06:25:15.489-04:00Comments on a joy to be me: Are you missing the joy of grace?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139676684011582364.post-81263480232612653562007-10-11T20:22:00.000-04:002007-10-11T20:22:00.000-04:00I appreciate your honesty. I understand your strug...I appreciate your honesty. I understand your struggle, and I think it can be a mind battle often times to not slip back to self effort, but His grace more and more prevails, don't you think! Don't underestimate the value of being real!!lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495924200222561417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139676684011582364.post-13345071933174855052007-10-07T23:55:00.000-04:002007-10-07T23:55:00.000-04:00I'm surprised no one has commented on this one...I'm surprised no one has commented on this one. This is amazing. I love your excitement for grace! I get so easily entangled in trying to earn God's favor or prove my sincerity. Everything in my mind can say to me that I must not rest, I must work. <br><br>I thoroughly agree with Paul Anderson-Walsh that Christians think that the salvation gift is dependent upon our valiant efforts at being good. Sometimes I don't want to try. A lot of times I don't. And since I've come to grace, I don't pray as near as much. But when I do pray; it's real. I don't read my Bible as near as much, but now it's real. I don't do a lot of things as much, but I'm more real.Matthew Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549061279827942555noreply@blogger.com