Daily Journal: 12 August

Transparent Carriers

of His Grace

Do you know your purpose in life?

What do you think purpose in life is about? Is it what we choose to do with our lives? Is it what we accomplish? Is it the way we treat others?

I am made for His purpose. I have been saved for His purpose. He has purified me and washed me clean to fulfil His purpose on earth.

My purpose is to glorify Him and do good works. I am to be a carrier of His grace in all things. His grace has been gifted to me to show His handiwork in me. God calls out the beauty in who I am. I can only show His refinement when I am surrendered and intent on doing what He requires.

Micah 6:8 (GWT)

You mortals, the Lord has told you what is good. This is what the Lord requires from you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to live humbly with your God.

Left on my own, my thoughts turn sour. I ruminate and fester over slights and grievances. But being a transparent carrier of His grace, I can handle my mind and emotions better.

2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

As far as it depends on me I can be at peace with all people and have conversations that turn offense into forgiveness.

Romans 12:18 (GWT)

As much as it is possible, live in peace with everyone.

I am able to let the fruits of the Spirit ferment in me to produce the grace of Christ.

Galatians 5:22-25 (NLV)

But the fruit that comes from having the Holy Spirit in our lives is: love, joy, peace, not giving up, being kind, being good, having faith, being gentle, and being the boss over our own desires. The Law is not against these things. Those of us who belong to Christ have nailed our sinful old selves on His cross. Our sinful desires are now dead. If the Holy Spirit is living in us, let us be led by Him in all things.

We are to be transparent carriers of His grace.

Galatians 5:4-5 (NIV)

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.

We are called and fit for a purpose to produce righteousness, unhindered by anything from this world that leaves us for dead. Saved, to complete the good things He created in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:1-2b, 4-5,10 (NCV)

In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God. Yes, in the past you lived the way the world lives.... But God’s mercy is great, and he loved us very much. Though we were spiritually dead because of the things we did against God, he gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace....God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.