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by
Emily Conrad
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June 19 - June 20, 2024
“Adeline isn’t the past. She was the start. There’s a difference.”
If only busy were lonely’s opposite, the distraction might’ve worked forever.
God doesn’t want us to spend years buried under guilt. Jesus came to set us free from condemnation.”
“The past I can’t forget, you don’t remember. All you ask is that I surrender. Hands up, weapons down, I let you in and breathe again. You make me better than the man I’ve been. I meant to be more than what I am, but what I am, I surrender.”
In Christ, we’re not defined by our sin. We’re defined by grace, and we can’t waste years on regret or in fear of what people might think if they choose to believe the tabloids.”
“You don’t get it. The point of the song is that God forgives. Restores us when we come to Him, no matter our sin.”
“Maybe the reason you’re so afraid of people finding out about our past is because if they knew, they might ask the same questions about you that they ask about me. You’re afraid of the scandal, afraid grace won’t catch your free fall. You’d rather make redemption about works and how people perceive you because you have some control there, but whatever scaffolding you’re rigging to get yourself to God won’t reach. Only the cross of Jesus will do that.”
“God’s grace is better than we can comprehend, and He is in the business of redeeming and bringing good from even the worst situations.”
Forgiveness doesn’t cancel consequences, but the opposite is also true. Consequences don’t mean we’re not forgiven. When we’re covered in grace, we don’t have to walk around in shame anymore.”
“Stand on grace.”
“I don’t think our hearts can be right on their own, but we can follow David’s example and ask God to create clean hearts in us. He can do for us what we can’t do for ourselves.”
Free and forgiven.
Since she hadn’t been praying when she’d taken the secretary role, she’d acted on an outward idea of holiness rather than on a relationship with God. She’d been struggling to get by for so long, but maybe God had never called her to that.
