"My Grace Is Sufficient For You"

But in my dream, my wish, I would run out of the room with one shoe on one shoe off down the stairs without hanging onto the rail, outside, skipping and hoping trying to get the other shoe on. I would run as fast as I could and let the breeze flow through my hair.

I would jump as I high as I could just to feel what it was like to be off the ground.

I think from looking back on the situation, i surprised the teacher with my wish because most kids asked for things or the ability to go places, I wished for what others had taken for granted.

All of us at one point or another wish to be free from something. We pray, we beg, we try any thing, but then reality sinks in and we know our wish will not be answered. So we pray for the strength to live each day to the fullest with the peace, comfort and strength of Jesus Christ to lead the way!

Healing comes in many forms, and it just might be the ability to live with the reality of life and then to be comfortable in our own skins.

My grace is sufficient for you.

Then the leaders of that synagogue turned their attention to Jesus. They accused him of working on the Sabbath.

But Jesus counters that with a statement about untying an animal on the Sabbath to lead it to water and then saying or implying that if you can water an animal on the Sabbath, can’t I, Jesus, do about the same thing. Let a lady be freed her bonds of this infliction.

Jesus had a passion for people not rules and regulations. Yes some rules are needed, but Jesus saw through all those artificial rules to the most basic rule that being kind to people and helping them is the most important rule.

Jesus gave only two commandments in the New Testament. We are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind and soul and to love our neighbor as our selves.

That is it.

Loving God means for one thing to come to worship to praise Him and listen to his word in the Bible and relive God’s actions on earth through the live of His Son, Jesus.

Loving our neighbor means we are to reach out with the compassion of Christ that is in us to those around us who are hurting.

My grace is sufficient for you!

Amen

Written by Pastor Tim Zingale August 20, 2007

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from PreachingNow Magazine

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