Unfolding Grace
Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without His unfolding grace. 2 Corinthians 4:16 MSG Have you ever done origami? If you get one of those step-by-step unfolding books they can be really hard to understand. Though it goes a step at a time, the drawings are two dimensional and it's hard to tell the direction to fold, even with clear illustrations. It's often puzzling how what you are doing will create the picture you see in the long run. In this verse in 2 Corinthians, Paul describes the Christian life as one big folding puzzle. On the outside, it's hard to know what God is doing. It is sometimes impossible to imagine how the circumstances surrounding your life will lead to a beautiful outcome. Yet because of grace, His well chosen, meticulous work has purpose to create in us something we can see as it unfolds daily. Ye...