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It's Five-Minute Friday again and Lisa-Jo has picked the word "GRIT" to be our prompt for five-minutes of unedited writing for the fun and/or discipline of it. I will try not to correct my typos, but I can't promise so I'm asking for grace upfront. Thank you.
START.
It takes grit to look
at the grit and grime
for what it is,
and that gap
in your life between
who you want to be
and who you know you are.
But with God's love and grace
firmly in view,
and His promise of future glory
and present,
we can look at the grit,
roll up our sleeves,
and get to work.
It is a paradox.
It is all His grace, and yet
there is grime that is
in front of us that
needs to be cleaned.
I don't know how it all
works, but I do
know that when I lean hard
on Him, I somehow find
the strength to be gritty and
to push forward into the
glory awaiting me,
if I persevere.
So when you want to give up
and don't feel like you
have any grit left to deal
with all of the grit and grime
in your life,
remember that there is glory
awaiting you, so
the apostle Paul says,
that will be so much
far beyond whatever
grit we currently face,
that the grit will
look like nothing,
less than nothing, an
actual nanospeck, if such
a thing existed.
So don't forget, there is glory
behind all that grit and grime.
You are not all that gritty that
God's grace cannot
find you and transform you.
He sees beyond our grit to the
glory that He placed inside of us
when He created us
in love.
STOP.
- "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us." Romans 8:18 NASB
Thank you for letting me share some of the grit in my life in recent posts, and for the grace you have extended to me.
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