God's grace

For the past two weeks, I've been really trying to get in a quiet time with God in the morning. It's tough though. Either I'm so exhausted from getting up a few times with Sonya in the morning or I just plain old don't want to get out of bed. God does have a pretty great sense of humor though. I had vowed to get up at 6am for my QT's (normally my alarm goes off at 7am). So Sonya woke me up two days in a row since I didn't get up on my own or set my alarm to go off earlier. Another day, my Bible actually fell off my nightstand and woke me up. I decided that those were the kicks in the butt that I needed to feel motivated.

When I opened my Bible, I didn't know where to start. I had tried doing chronological reading before, but after a month, I gave up. It was my goal to read the entire Bible, cover-to-cover, in one year. This time, I decided on baby steps and chose to study Romans. I vaguely remember a friend telling me that that was one of their favorite books in the Bible. Now I can see why! I'm falling in love with it as I am learning more about righteousness and sin. Each day, I actually look forward to spending more time in the Word and just feeling more thankful and in awe of our God.

Since I don't have much time, I'll leave you to with a quote from Romans:

"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life." 

(Romans 6:22 NIV)