Everything is by grace. And I can’t repeat that enough. I had to remind myself while showering this morning for fifteen years I lived in a house without a shower so I should thank God for this one and not take it for granted. There are also millions upon millions in this world who do not have basics as plumbing in their house.
God does not owe us anything. And everything is by grace although He often gives us way beyond the essentials. Far more that we deserve. I have said in the past He is up there with trillions of strings attached to Him and they all want it a different way. I would not want to be God. I just have to remind myself: everything is by grace. And not take anything for granted.
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I try not to take anything for granted, even the shower I take. For fifteen years the house I lived in had no shower. I still remember that back then the big thing about staying in a motel was it would have a shower.
It is so easy to take your most basic freedoms for granted until you are in a situation when you lose them. It happens in jails (which I never was in) or in hospitals.
I still remember although it was almost forty years ago I needed permission for almost everything. To make a telephone call, to take a shower to take a walk, almost everything.
So I cherish my simple freedoms a little more although there are times I forget this. Everything is by grace. I keep coming back to this. Everything is by grace.
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