The Grace of God is always on me, as a born again believer. His grace doesn’t bop in and out of my life like a yo yo. This was one thing my ex-Catholic husband said, too. He was overjoyed when he realized that.
Amen! Well-said. My ex-Catholic husband was likewise surprised and grateful and "overjoyed" when God opened his eyes to the fact that the promises of Christ are true and sure, and that nothing can pluck us from His hands because it is His will that we are numbered among His family.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." -- Romans 8:28-39
"He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." -- 1 John 5:10-15 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
I can understand the temporal world denying this truth, but it's always puzzling why any Christian would choose to ignore this gift of assurance.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." -- Ephesians 1:4-6"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
“The Grace of God is always on me, as a born again believer. His grace doesn’t bop in and out of my life like a yo yo. This was one thing my ex-Catholic husband said, too. He was overjoyed when he realized that.”
I’m overjoyed that your husband has finally found where he belongs. I am also thrilled that he and you don’t have the Grace God has given you “bop in and out” of your lives.
You see that when Catholics commit even venial sin they understand that they distance and separate themselves from Christ and His Grace. A practicing Catholic, which I am sure your husband must have been, would: a) examine their conscience (a very Catholic thing), b) realize they were distancing themselves from Christ by their actions or omissions, c) go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation (another Catholic thing), d) receive absolution from a validly ordained Catholic priest, e) perform the penance the Priest proscribes, and f) receives the Eucharist to remove the separation from our Lord.
I’m sure your husband, the formerly Catholic guy, did all this regularly his whold life, and that he didn’t find the Catholic teachings on the Eucharist, confession, conception, abortion, etc. too hard as all the folks in John 6:60-66 did.
Oh I’m sory I forgot now that your husband is born again or whatever - he can’t sin anymore and thereby separate himself from Christ, so he is Christlike and always has all the Grace he needs.
So, nevermind the Catholic stuff - you and he have everything you need (deserve).
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