"It is told of a saintly man,
that by his own request,
the only epitaph on his grave
was the word kept.
We are all kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation."
J R Miller
Secrets of a Beautiful Life
That
we are being kept by God
is the
miraculous, loving gift of grace.
He keeps
us every moment of our day--
teaching
us when we are at a loss,
giving
us strength when we are tempted,
lifting
us up when we fall,
going
after us when we wander,
and encouraging
us when we are weak.
This
patient, never failing, watchful love
of
Christ is our salvation every day.
It
is His perfect knowledge of us
that
gives such infinite patience
to
His love and grace.
He
knows what is in us--
not just
what we are now,
but
what we are to be
when
His work in us is finished.
We shall be like Him;
for we shall see Him as He is.
“The
mother of the artist saw in her boy’s
childish
attempts glimpses of genius,
and
kissed him to encourage him.
That
kiss made him an artist.
So
the patient, loving Christ sees
in
our poor living, in our yearnings,
our
human discontents, our strivings,
our
hungers, and our longings,
glimpses
of what we may become,
and
it is to bring out these possibilities
that
He deals with us
in
such grace and gentleness.”
~J R
Miller
His gentleness, love and infinite grace
gives me the hope to live this day
for His glory.
While I was with them,
I kept and preserved them in Your Name.
John 17:12
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