Paul Tripp on Grace
Paul Tripp’s explanation of the influence of grace in a marriage from his book What Did You Expect is a keeper:
Grace gives your marriage a lifetime warranty. What this means is that God will give you everything you need to be what you are supposed to be and do what he has called you to do in your marriage. But you must do it. His grace enables, reconciles, restores and repairs. His grace teaches you and changes you. His grace gives you what you need to ask forgiveness and to forgive. His grace empowers you to overlook minor offenses and target what is truly important. His grace helps you see yourself with greater and greater accuracy and respond to what you see with greater and greater wisdom. His grace gives you strength to continue when you feel like quitting. His grace gives you power to resist temptation and to turn and do what is right. His grace rescues you from your obsession with self-love and welcomes you to the joyous work of loving another. His grace enables you to be good and angry at the same time. When grace works a commitment to God’s kingdom and righteousness in your heart, you will be angry at what sin does to you, to those you love and to the situations in which you live, and that anger will motivate you to be a tool of change. His grace causes you to be committed to giving grace. His grace is a marriage warranty, because it gives what you need, but what you get is grace in motion (p. 235).
Please Pray our Costa Rica Mission Team
By the time today’s blog is posted I should be well on my way to Costa Rica with one of CrossPoint’s summer mission teams. We will spend a week with Mission Challenge. CrossPointers Ken & Katie Parsons are already there waiting on us to serve with them. We will be involved in some construction efforts as well as sharing the gospel with many of the people in that area of Central America.
The people travelling with me include:
- Caleb & Leslie Davis
- Ron Ethridge
- Trey Ethridge
- Britton Ethridge
- David Foster
- Chris Metcalf
- Ben Parr
- Josh Phillips
- Brad & Patti Rosenow
- David Summerville
- Taylor Whitley
Thank you for praying for us. And, yes, I will be posting blogs next week from some of my overflow study of the gospel of Luke.
Praying for words from the Spirit to fill the mouths of the team members as you all take the gospel to Costa Rica. Also praying that the 2% of your year there will transform the other 98% on the mission field at home.