[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

...not by self effort, but by grace. A few are more naturally inclined to live this way, not many are brought up to live this way...

Wow.. I was thinking about this the other day. How it's not an effort.. it's just an innate way of being. Even if you stray, God always shows you the way back. You don't have to go to church or be a member of organized religion to be graced by God. He will never forsake you. He will answer your prayers.

[Jim W N]

It's all about entering into HIS rest.

For we which have believed do enter into rest...although the works were finished from the foundation of the world...There remains therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest.

Heb 4:3, 9-11.

The only thing God tells us to labor for is his rest. "Labor not to be rich", but "labor to enter his rest."

Living is his rest, ceasing from our own works and flowing in his works like milk and honey, is worth more than all the riches in the world.

God bless.

[Jim W N]

...and you get there by studying God’s Word regularly and often, and letting his life and peace, which never contradicts His Word, lead you. Fellowshipping with other Christians also helps especially if they are grace-based, not law-based.