UNTIL HE BRINGS ME HOME

You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:24-26

new blog: days by grace

This is what the bible, the word of God, tells us:

God, the creator and sustainer of the universe, is holy and calls me to be holy. But I am a sinner who falls woefully short of the standard. I was created to be in worshipful communion with him, but because of my sin I was—from birth—alienated and hostile to him. For my transgressions, I deserve hell.

But Jesus Christ, both fully God and fully man, lived the perfectly righteous life which I could not live. Yet, he died in my place at that cross; he bore all the wrath of God that was due to me and took my sins upon his shoulders.

He did this so that, at the moment God rescued me, regenerated my heart, and saved my lost hellbound soul, all my sins would be expiated—washed away—and I would have the righteousness of Jesus Christ credited to my account. Thus, I am reconciled to him. Thus, I can—by grace, not by any of my works—have worshipful communion with God. Thus, I have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and he conforms me to the likeness of Christ for the rest of my days on this earth. Thus, I can enter the everlasting heaven, where he is in all his glory.

Since my life has been purchased, I am called to live of obedience to him and his word. I am still weak, though. In particular, I have found that I am particularly weak with regard to my stewardship of my time.

I want to honor my parents, prepare myself well for marriage, and love others. Above all, I want to work out my salvation with fear and trembling, and along the way demonstrate good works that men might see and give praise to our Father in heaven.

So in this pursuit, I’ll be creating a new blog: Days By Grace (a throwback to the old online journal my dear brother Jon Lim once held). It will be a daily record of everything I do, every single day—I plan to maintain it for at least the rest of the Christmas break, and hopefully well into Winter Quarter (in other words, a couple months-ish).

Of course, the God-dependent pursuit of holiness is a lifelong process, and this part of my sanctification is not contingent on me blogging/not blogging. But I hope it will help. Normally, I would keep this to private journaling, but I also need and covet your help and accountability.

Ultimately, it will not be about me or my life. It will be about the all-sufficient grace and power of God, both unto salvation and sanctification. The strength to follow his commands could never come from me.

The password is: solideogloria

(And I don’t know if I’ll have internet access up at Mammoth, so the first post might not come up until Friday. In that case, sorry about the premature post!)

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