GCR Women

Membership has its privileges. Discounts on flights and hotel rooms.  Access to special events and people. The best seats. The best access. The best of everything. If you’re willing to pay the price of membership, you can have the privileges.   But with our Lord, he’s one who paid the price and instead of keeping it all for himself, he gives us his privileges. When we’re in him, we have access to the Father and the Holy Spirit. We gain all the blessings without paying any of the cost. Our Lord doesn’t just give us his privileges, he gives us himself. We become one with him and everything he is.  Now, that’s amazing grace.  Patrice 2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭21‬ ‭NIV‬‬  God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I like to think I’m a good person who conducts herself in a morally upright manner. Sometimes I can carry that off; but deep inside, I know that my righteousness is unsustainable, no matter how good my intentions.  God knows this about me. He sees me trying to live a righteous life by my own efforts; and He knows I can’t sustain it by myself. So, through Jesus, He offers me His righteousness. All I have to do is put it on. His righteousness covers my heart and reminds me of who I am - of whose I am.  When I put on the breastplate of His righteousness, I remember that He is the source of all goodness, not me.  When I put on the breastplate of His righteousness, I remember that I am under His control, not the control of sin. When I put on the breastplate of His righteousness, I remember that He gives me the power to stand against the enemy.  Standing firm by His mighty power, Patrice  Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭14b‬ ‭NIV  Stand firm then, … with the breastplate of righteousness in place, …