Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit"

...

Instead, you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

James 4:13, 15 CSB

James would have been right at home in Level 4! (We're all right at home now I suppose lol)

He wants us to keep looking up, up to God to His Big Story and the place we have in that. 

Our circumstances can change, without notice, the things we thought we had under control can be taken away, can change, not seem so solid.

Keep looking up.

See the world, our circumstances, even our life, in the light of the Eternal, the Creator.

His Big Story of love, redemption, restoration, of wanting to draw all people to Himself, His love so outrageous that He entered the story, our story, as a servant.

He came to serve.

To give.

Because He is Love.

That's Grace 

Love freely given.

We can't earn it. 

Can't buy it.

But we can accept it, and be stained by it.

Forever.

#stainedbygrace

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#dearlyloved