Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … While.
While … it’s a span of time from one point to another, or from here to there.
In the book of Romans, Paul writes much about the process of sanctification – the change which occurs in our lives as believers.
While we are journeying through life, each day brings its highs and lows, joys and despairs, the challenges and the mundane.
We take on the day, no matter what it may bring, all the while being changed as we go. We are unable to change on our own. We are in partnership with God, through the work of His Son, and the activity of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
“For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.” (John 1:16, NASB)
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.“ (2 Corinthians 3:18, NASB)
With each passing day,
we live with grace upon grace and go from glory to glory,
all while we journey along the way.
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Today I may be joining …
I am being rearranged
by circumstance, all this long while,
and looking back on all that’s changed
I really cannot help but smile,
for I was such a callow youth
in whom the immature ran deep,
who saw no use in holy truth,
and who’d never make the leap
of faith required for salvation,
the leap to Jesus’ waiting arms;
all that prideful hesitation
brought me to a vale of harms,
’till I learned best what I learned last,
and thus to Him my heart was cast.
Andrew, I am so grateful you learned and cast your heart to Him. You have been a blessing and encouragement to so many.
With each passing day,
we live with grace upon grace and go from glory to glory,
all while we journey along the way.
What a simply lovely thought!
Just stopped by from FMF #12
Much appreciated, Heather. He is ever at work in us and changing us. In this, I find encouragement.
Thank you, Joanne. Such divine gifts are lavished upon us in the ordinariness of life – ‘grace upon grace’ and ‘from glory to glory’! Dawn #11
Dawn, I am coming to learn there are many gifts He bestows us while we live our ordinary lives.
I have missed visiting you as I’ve had to cut back so much on blogging activity. I so enjoyed connecting with your writing again today.
We all have seasons in which we must cut back. I have missed your weekly prayer posts 🙂
Praise the Lord for His grace upon grace! Visiting from FMF
Indeed, for we are all in need of His grace!
thank you for these words of spiritual perspective and hope, Joanne. may this Sabbath give you rest and joy.