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Fresh Air for a Desert People

Only God

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Psalm 22:5  - They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

What was it that our fathers did that brought them into the experience of God’s deliverance?

It was very little and very much. It was very little of human effort or initiative.

However, it was a great expression of faith in two parts. First, their attitude was one of trust – that resolute act of resting on God’s grace.

Second, the volitional action was crying out for mercy, help, and salvation in desperate resignation.

We who scatter ourselves about in frantic frenzies of futile flailing exclaim, “Is that all? It can’t be!”

It is.

Unless it becomes that alone, nothing we DO matters.

Only God saves.

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"Grace Came Down..."
 
"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as 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 so that we would walk in them."-Ephesians 2:8-10
 
Manhattan skyscraper, the W. R. Grace building, 1114 6th Ave, Manhattan, NY 10018 (at Bryant Park), designed by Gordon Bunshaft.
 
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