Abuse can mean "excessive use". Meaning are you going beyond the normal, reasonable, or proper use of God's grace? Or is your lifestyle one in which you are trying to live holy and trying to live right? You have to understand that there is a difference between grace and faith.
A lot of times we do things and we know that they are wrong when we do them. We tend to assume God's forgiveness before we even do it. That's not God's desire. It is not His desire that we have knowledge and understanding and yet we never use it.
We have to know that the difference between grace and faith. Faith says that I am taking a stand. It says that I will not be moved. I won't be shifted to compromise that which I believe. We tend to look at grace with more leniency. We tend to look at grace and say....even if I do this, God will forgive me. We say that "God knows my weaknesses" or "I'll do better next time". The problem is, in many cases, we don't even try to do the right thing, because we know we are already forgiven.
Our sole purpose is to magnify God. In magnifying God, we are to cause Him to become enlarged in someone else's eyes. Someone else is watching everything we do. Whether it be the right thing or the wrong thing, we are always "magnifying something". As a matter of fact, we are always magnifying "destiny". One definition of destiny is "the power that will determine the course of events".
We have to choose if we want to magnify "God's Faith" or "God's Grace And Mercy". People do need to know both. They need to know that God forgives. But you have to remember.....everything is still left up to the interpretation. Although you know you are walking under grace and mercy, how are those around you interpreting your behavior?
Worship For Today
Take Me Out Of The Dark
Ministered By Gary Valenciano
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