grace

yesterday i had a revelation. Glory be to God for this one entirely, He reminded me everything is by his grace and his grace alone. the past couple of weeks i have been battling feelings of discontentment in many situations. When something bad has happened i have all too often adopted an attitude of selfishness and bitterness. This is NOT how it should be. Yesterday God told me that i need to be grateful for everything i have, and in every situation I am to praise him for what i have. I need to have an attitude of being grateful. Even more so i need to give thanks to Him who gives me all things. The very breath that sustains me is a gift. Over the past few weeks i have realized that the same applies to my circumstance, because in every trial and hardship he is teaching me, and making me into the man he wants me to be. with that being said, this also must be said, God is good always!  Romans 5:1-10  Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.  Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;  perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.  You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!