===Saved by...the bell??

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Saved by…..the bell?

August 21, 2013 

Noooo. Not the bell. By grace. Amazing grace…
What’s grace, you ask?
It’s getting something that we don’t deserve.
It’s a gift.
A”get out of jail free” card.
A pardon.
There isn’t anything we can do to get grace…it isn’t earned.
God can’t possibly love us anymore than he already does. So, there should never be guilt-driven deeds, tithes, works, etc. going on in our lives.

“For it is by grace you have been saved , through faith-and this is not from yourselves-it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast”

~Ephesians 2:8-9

So often we can get “religion” and “grace” intertwined….but truly, they aren’t the same. In fact, I get the “he bee jee bees” when people label me as a “religious” person- because I’m not. I’m saved by grace, not religion. I’m not religious at all, actually.
What I know is this-Because I love Jesus, what He did for me and continues to do for me, I can’t help myself but to read his word daily, be obedient to Him, pray to Him throughout the day, teach my children to love Him, tell others about Him, and {this is a really fun part} love others~ because when I love others, I am loving Him. 

“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me”

~Matthew 25:40

I encourage you, sweet friends….to stop… relax…. bask in the knowledge that if you were the only person on Earth- Jesus would have died for just YOU.
That’s really something.
That’s everything.
Give of yourself… because you can’t help yourself…to be motivated by the deepest love there ever was.