{"id":769,"date":"2011-01-11T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolene-test.com.bishopcompsol.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2011-01-11T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T01:29:08","slug":"dont-waste-his-grace-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/dont-waste-his-grace-recycled\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Waste His Grace &#8211; Recycled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-323.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-770\" title=\"shapeimage_1-32\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-323-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-323-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-323-500x285.png 500w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-323.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One look at this entry from December 31, 2009, and I knew it had to be the recycled post of the week. A little over a year ago, Anne and her fiance were on the road in a snowstorm, while I lay warm in my bed. This year, Anne and her fiance are snug and warm while I\u2019m braving winter weather. Though the tables have been turned from then to now, one thing remains true. None of us, even in the midst of snowstorms and uncertainty, have reason to waste God\u2019s wonderful grace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t Waste His Grace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s winter storm made the Wednesday evening before Christmas a rather trying one at our house. Anne and her fiancee thought they could outrun the storm bearing down on northwest Iowa by leaving for Wisconsin early in the afternoon. For the first few hours, they made good progress. But as darkness fell and traffic slowed the storm caught up with them.<\/p>\n<p>Anne called around 6:30 PM to say they had pulled into a rest stop on I-90, not far from Rochester, Minnesota. \u201cWe\u2019ll spend the night in the car,\u201d she said. \u201cThe visibility\u2019s so bad we can\u2019t even get to the next town.\u201d After reassuring me they had plenty of blankets, food, water and gasoline, she hung up.<\/p>\n<p>If the call had come two or three years ago, the thought of my daughter marooned at a rest stop in a blizzard would have kept me awake most of the night. But in the last few years, I have seen God so powerfully at work in our lives, I was able to fall asleep, confident that He would watch over my daughter and the man she\u2019s going to marry.<\/p>\n<p>The same night Anne slept in the car, the cold woke Hiram and I woke in the middle of the night. An ice storm had knocked out our electricity, but instead of fretting about when it would come on and how our daughter was faring, I piled extra blankets on the bed and thought about something I\u2019d recently read in John Piper\u2019s Don\u2019t Waste Your Life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe simply take life and breath and health and friends and everything for granted. We think it is ours by right. But the fact is that it is not ours by right.\u201d Piper goes on to remind us that we are sinful, we\u2019re the ones who rebelled against our Creator. \u201cTherefore, every breath we take, every time our heart beats, every day that the sun rises, every moment we see with our eyes or hear with our ears or speak with our mouths or walk with our legs is, for now,a\u00a0 free and undeserved gift to sinners who deserve only judgement&#8230;for those who see the merciful hand of God in every breath they take and give credit where it is due, Jesus Christ will be seen and savored&#8230;Every heartbeat will be received as a gift from his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I lay, waiting for the extra blankets to warm us, and thought about my daughter\u2019s life in a new way. The years we\u2019ve had with her are an undeserved gift. So is electricity and a warm house and Christmas and a husband who loves me. If I accept these good gifts from God, then I can trust him, even when what he gives is not what I think I need. Then, I fell asleep asking him to prepare me for whatever news came in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>When we woke, the electricity was on. The house was warm. An hour or two later, Anne called to say the snow had stopped, and they were on their way. By noon she called to say they had arrived. Once again, God\u2019s grace was poured out upon our family. I thanked him for the undeserved gift of our travelers\u2019 safety. I asked him to make me mindful of his grace.<\/p>\n<p>Please God, I pray again whenever I feel my heart beat, continue to make me grateful. Don\u2019t let me waste your grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One look at this entry from December 31, 2009, and I knew it had to be the recycled post of the week. A little over a year ago, Anne and her fiance were on the road in a snowstorm, while I lay warm in my bed. 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