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There It Is

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"Lord Jesus, I cannot do this!," I cry out. 

"There it is," He calmly points. 

Coming to the end of my well-intentioned
self, coming to the end of my pride-filled
sin, that's where "it" is. It's right where
He wants me, having no other choice, but to
humbly turn to Thee. 

"Help me, Lord!" I beg. "Please!"

"There it is," the beautiful place where
faith first comes to dip its hands in the
stream of God's Grace to get a drink. 

Faith is the cupped hands God gave me to
drink in all that He already has in order to
slake a thirst I cannot, including answers to
prayers I yet have not. 

Faith is a mind made up believing in God, in
His love, goodness, kindness, and faithfulness
too. Faith is a heart that knows the Father as
Abba, Jesus as Lord, and the Holy Spirit as
Counselor. 

Faith is living life in the assurance of God's
promises and Jesus' sacrifice, His ultimate
victory. Faith is reaching out to God alone to
take part in all He has planned. 

Faith is the peace that surpasses all under-
standing, confident that God has already moved
time and the space to provide everything I will
need to finally go back home. 

Faith is knowing there is nothing heavenly left
for me to do other than to follow Jesus into
eternity. And faith is living in this world
submerged in God's unlimited Grace to a state
of nothing but confident expectancy. 

May I rest nowhere else but in "There it is."

"You are welcome to join me, my friend, where
faith bends down on one knee at the edge of
Grace, and then gets up and then all the way
wades in."

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by J Alan R
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