Freely Given Gifts
What would Jesus say to you over coffee? I think I know. If you’re already His, He would remind you—not of your sin; not of how you’re not measuring up; not of all the things He wants you to do better. No, He would remind you of the things freely given to you by God. That’s what Paul says the Holy Spirit tells us (1 Corinthians 2:12): the things God has freely given us.
If you’re a believer in Jesus, I think that over coffee He would say things like the following:
(Adapted from Night with a Perfect Stranger, by David Gregory, from Worthy Publishing)
Photo by David Stroud