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crazy Monday


It seems to be a crazy Monday, but it is not.  Julie is getting ready for school to start this Wednesday.  There are lots of meetings at school, and our church is helping serve breakfast at a school this morning.  This weekend our son had a birthday.  Of coarse we had church, some meetings and lots going on.  Therefore, it seems to be a crazy Monday.


But i it is not.  It is a day to prepare for what is ahead.  I am praying for our children and the children of our community.  I am thinking about the weeks ahead and preparing for a mission trip, some special time with my brothers, some events and outreach.  Man, there is a lot going through my head.  Seems like a crazy Monday.


Do you get my point?  Every day brings challenges, but how we look at the days brings either darkness or light, excitement or discouragement.  The choice is ours.  It all depends on how we look at things.


We are in a series at The Community Fellowship called “It’s Time” as we walk through the book of Ephesians.  Yesterday I shared from Ephesians 2:1-10 and maybe one of the most important messages and foundation of our salvation.


There are a couple verses that are the heaviest and sweetest to me.  They are ones I memorized as a teenager.  See what you think of them…


Ephesians 2:8-9  NASB  

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 


The grace of God…


Our salvation…


Only by the gift of God and the person of Jesus…


Not something I worked for and not something I can boast about…


God loves us and loved us so much that His grace gave.  Salvation is ours.  We are blessed.  It is time to choose how we see this day.  It is a crazy Monday or is is a Monday of opportunity and grace?


May this not be a crazy Monday for you but a day that reminds you of God’s gift of grace!


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