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• Our Journey Through The Valley (66)

  16 January, 2014

  I took a bit of a leap in my last post by owning the fact I am afraid of what lays before us on our journey through the valley.  I also asked the question based on what Psalm 23 declares  "....I will fear no evil for you are with me". So where has the fear come from?

  In one way it is understandable that the anticipation of our death should generate questions for ourselves and those around us. Last Sunday I had another "Aha"! moment that successfully challenged and evicted that fear.

  I was listening to a music tape and I was particularly arrested by a particular phrase in one of the songs. It was simply referring to God's grace - "Grace that blows all fear away..."

  That is very significant to Bev and I because we have been praying on a daily basis for "grace for the day". Now, I understand the grace of God to be a very dynamic reality. I respond very much to this: "Grace is the empowering presence of God". As I listened to the CD I realised that I have fallen into the trap of trying to get an advance of grace from the future rather than just draw on the grace that God had made available just for today.

  God put it like this to Paul; "My grace is sufficient for you...." It is adequate for the demands of this day. Grace cannot be accumulated. There is never any left-over grace from yesterday. We can't get an advance on the grace reserved for tomorrow. We have grace for today and that, says the Lord, is adequate or sufficient.

  And that all-sufficient grace blows all fear away.