"When you find a spark of grace in the heart, kneel down and blow it into a flame." ~ Charles Spuregon
I struggle as a father to be a consistent encourager, but i try to find the thing(s) that are good within my children's situation to praise them. To encourage them. In a similar way, when us older Christians see younger brothers and sisters in Christ struggling. We need to remember that we also struggled. That we STILL struggle. Breath in to them the grace that God breathed in to you. While we are at once justified, we must walk out our justification day by day, step by step, breath by breath.
"But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved — and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:4-10, ESV)
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