A Year of Grace

This is my year of GRACE.  

I've set my course on knowing it more deeply, extending it more richly, and being transformed by its understanding and my belief in it's power in my life.

 

And this is where it starts....

It's no coincidence when you see a pattern in the things your reading from multiple sources, when certain people pop up in your life, when conversations and songs and EVERYTHING begins to coalesce like a big blinking neon sign that says.....Focus here!!! Don't miss this!!! God is doing something in these ways!!!

That is the way of THE SPIRIT.  He walks and moves about our lives with intention and if we ask for eyes to see and ears to hear, He will show us.  Sometimes instantly, sometimes in a tip toe way.

So it has felt like a Tip-Toe season in my heart.  I've been wrestling with GRACE and BELIEF.  

And then suddenly, the big blinking neon sign in my heart has gone off! 

Late in September last year, the realization came to me, that through my 20's God was working to establish in me the knowledge of Him. 

But my 30's are a decade of Him calling me to Believe of Him.  

Because its a jump from KNOWLEDGE to BELIEF.  

Here's a couple definitions to flesh this out.....

knowl·edge

ˈnäləj/

noun

noun: knowledge;

1. 1.

   facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

   "a thirst for knowledge"
2. 2.

   awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.

    

    

be·lief

bəˈlēf/

noun

noun: belief; plural noun: beliefs

1. 1.

   an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.

   "his belief in the value of hard work"

   • something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or conviction.

     
     
   • a religious conviction.

     
     
2. 2.

   trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something.

   
   

Knowledge is the knowing, the acquiring of inspiration and experience that shape us.  It allows us to gain familiarity and awareness, however it is not TRANSFORMATIVE. 

And hence it's crippling ability to make us think we KNOW when we really don't.

Because we must step from knowledge to BELIEF.

Belief is active, where knowledge is rather passive.  Belief transforms, where knowledge can only inform. 

So I am asking myself, where does my knowledge lay, waiting to blossom into belief.  Because that action of BELIEF, will transform that knowledge into something ALIVE in me.  

Jesus says, 

  "My GRACE is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:9

So my question for myself is how can I take that and move it from knowledge to belief, and what gift will blossom in my soul because of it?  That's exciting.....