🙌🏼 'It's ALL GRACE!' ✝️

👩🏽😜 "Your story could be the key that unlocks someone else's prison.  Don't be afraid to share it!"  - Toby Mac 🔑😎 I was a "mess" for a long time (probably from ages 13-28), during some of the earlier years of my life, which, is what first caused me to see my "NEED" for Jesus' Salvation! 😉✝️ And then, even after God positioned me 'in Christ,' whenever, I got 'saved' (my spirit was quickened by HIS Holy Spirit / born again), I was still, really, a "saved mess" for years after that, although (I wouldn't have admitted it - ha! 🤣)! Thankfully, The Lord could see that, deep down in my heart (my motives), my desire was to please HIM, and, HE, patiently continued, as the "skilled potter," Whom HE is, molding and making, me, as HE continues to do (now)!  From observing many carnal Christian Believers throughout my childhood, and, other reasons, I had learned, and, developed habits, and, ways of dealing with life, which, along with just being born a sinner, my own, personal, wild-streak, plus, some other things, I became restless, discontent, unfulfilled, and the such. 😏 I thought that, I HAD to be DOING something 24/7!  I was searching for, something and/or someone, to fill up that VOID inside myself! 😏 As I write this post today, I can write with, sincerity and honesty, that, after years of struggling to get rid of that restlessness, discontentment, and void, etc., years ago - it FINALLY happened, at some point! 😃🙌🏼 PTL!! 🙌🏼💜  I cannot pinpoint exactly when it happened, however, I can pinpoint WHO made it happen!  It was Christ Jesus, of course!  It took HIM years, because, of with whom (me) HE was/is dealing! Ha!  HE could have instantaneously done it, just like HE did with my positional standing "IN HIM," but, HE chooses to use a gradual means of, growing up and transforming, HIS children.  Do NOT ask me why HE chooses to do it this way, because, I'm not sure!  I do have my ideas, as to why, but, with no absolute certainty. Sorry! 😗 ✝️💞The Lord has used a profusion of diverse things in this process, which is, on-going, in me, concerning my transformational journey, sanctification (practical), etc.! 📖✝️ ALL of the credit for any positive changes in me, is totally attributed to HIM - working on, and, inside of, me!  I have a VERY LONG WAY TO GO - in becoming ALL that I should be for HIM, but, HE is a VERY PATIENT, LOVING, etc., FATHER!!  Thank God that, HIS same GRACE, which saved me, is continually keeping me saved, and, is also - daily - blessing me, in a myriad of ways!! PTL!! 🙌🏼 After all, it is either ALL GRACE, or, it's NO GRACE (at all))!!..."GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S GRACE...GRACE that will pardon, and, cleanse within...!"...And, I'm grateful in knowing that, it is ALL GRACE!!! 🙌🏼✝️🙏🏼"Amazing GRACE...how sweet the sound...that saved a wretch like me...I once was lost...but, now I'm FOUND...'twas blind, but now, I SEE!" 😃 🙌🏼 ✝️🙌🏼🙏🏼 There's always been a "wildness" in me that, I thought never would, or even could, be, tamed, even after I received HIS great Salvation, BUT, I am extremely, surpirised and thankful, to write that, it is ALMOST completely gone (Ha! I'm certain that, as long as I remain in this mortality, there shall be an amber of it that shall remain)! 😽 I just read this on 'Pinterest,' and, it simply says what I am desperately attempting to say in this post..."EVERYTHING you go through, GROWS you!" (Author unknown - to me) ☺️😊💕 (ROMANS 12:1+2) 🙏🏼✝️💖 It has, is, and shall, take everything that God has available to give me (my BAD, not HIS), for me to continue growing in HIM, and, fulfill the destiny in which HE desires, and, has a perfect plan, for me to complete! Philippians 1:6 is, my favorite, and, my theme, verse, in the Bible! 📖💖 If, HE can, save and change, me, as HE, has and is, then, HE can, save and change, ANYONE!! 😉😃 The great apostle Paul, who wrote a lot of the New Testament, in the Bible, before he got saved - persecuted Christian Believers, and, he was even responsible for some of their deaths!  Hey, YOU, since God changed Paul, HE is also able to change, you, me, and anybody!! 😃🙌🏼✝️🙏🏼 The positional change which happens, whenever a person gets saved, is the same for - each and every person (Ephesians 2:5)! ✝️ However, the individual sanctification, or, practical, physical, etc., transformation (growth, change for the better) varies per person! 📖🕊Furthermore, through HIS, transformational Salvation, Grace, Mercy, ETC., HE desires for HIS children to LET HIM cause us to - grow up (reach spiritual maturity), and, live VICTORIOUS Christian lives, by consistently YIELDING to HIS, WORD and SPIRIT!  Also, KNOWING that, HIS GRACE is keeping us (Believers) saved, we're sealed by The Holy Spirit, The Blood is cleansing us from our sins, ETC., "should" help us to live VICTORIOUSLY (mainly to honor and glorify HIM)!..."GRACE that is greater than ALL MY SIN!" 🙌🏼✝️📖🕊🙏🏼 "Your days are numbered.  Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun!  If you do NOT, the sun will SOON SET, and YOU with it!" - Marcus Aurelius 🌞🌇💙...✝️...🙏🏼💖👋🏼...Until my next post...