If you ask most Christians how their walk with God is going, you will likely hear what they need to be doing more or less of. “I need more patience, more strength, to pray more, read more, give more, trust more, go to church more”. “I need to drink less, gossip less, cuss less, doubt less, get angry less”. But taking the temperature of our walk with God really does not start with what we should or shouldn’t be doing, but with what He has already done. God offered His Son so that we could be rightly related to Him, not do everything right to be related to Him. Grace means that our relationship with God is secured by His doing and by faith, expressed through our doing.
Knowing you are unconditionally loved, completely accepted, totally forgiven, a brand-new creation, never alone, adored, pleasing, a child of God, and a holy one is the foundation for living that way. (And that is some incredible list by the way!). Then we can begin to see our walk, not as a measuring of what we need more or less of but what we have been given all of…by grace! Colossians 2:10 says we are complete in Him, so we can stop measuring what we do or don’t do, and we can rest in what He has done, which is immeasurable!
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.