Psalms of Comfort 14: Fill Your Heart With God’s Grace

Psalm 119

17    Be good to your servant while I live,
that I may obey your word.
18 Open my eyes that I may see
wonderful things in your law.

God loves to decorate. God has to decorate. Let Him live long enough in a heart, and that heart will begin to change. Portraits of hurt will be replaced with landscapes of grace. Walls of anger will be demolished and shaky foundations restored. God can no more leave a life unchanged than a mother can leave her child’s tear untouched.

What is grace? It’s what someone gives us out of the goodness of his heart, not out of the perfection of ours.

2 Corinthians 5:17:

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

From time to time you might decorate a room in your house. A lick of paint, new carpet or rug, maybe new furnishings and it might feel like a new room for a while. After a while that new room might start to become familiar to you again, the novelty of newness starts to wear off.

God is recreating all the time, we see that in the world around us, we see that in the ever expanding heavens as astronomers discover new galaxies and features in the night sky. We see recreation in our own families as we celebrate the birth of new babies. We had a lovely addition to a family within our congregation the other day, welcome to the world little Ella Blythe Ross. A couple of weeks before that Amy Hannah Macaskill was born, welcome Amy. A few weeks before lockdown we had the lovely addition of little Alexander to the Barron family who came to church just a few days after he was born. A continual recreation, God at work.

Lockdown might seem to have put life on hold but God is still making all things new. When we give God access to our hearts and we allow His grace to fill us and overflow in our hearts they too are made new. No such thing as lockdown there, no such thing as same old same old with God.

Only when our faces are turned to the sun do we feel its warmth and experience its presence. We close our eyes and enjoy the moment. So it is with God. Turn your thoughts to Him today and just see what he changes. He might change things very subtly and you might not even notice it but others will.

A little game Diane my wife plays is add something new to the room or change something around and see if I notice. I am not the most observant of people but if I look hard enough I see the change and it makes a difference to the room. Let’s continue to be open to the little changes God wants to make in our lives as he ever so slowly changes us.

May you know more of His grace day by day.