Ever feel like your faith in God is stuck? Feel like the wheels of life are constantly coming off?
Maybe you don't feel like you've really been growing in your faith. Maybe you've tried doing a lot of different things - serving in the community, volunteering at church, getting in a group - but it still feels like you're spinning your wheels.
Have you ever heard of a linchpin?
A linchpin is a pin that passes through an axle to hold a wheel on. Without it, the wheel would come off. We now use it to describe someone or something that is indispensable to a mission or organization.
The apostle Paul wrote a short letter to a young man named Titus. Titus was trying to help move the faith community in Crete forward, but things seemed a bit.. out of control. Paul had all kinds of practical applications that he wrote about in just 46 verses, but right in the middle of his letter he writes 6 verses that explain the key to moving forward: Their understanding of God's grace.
Did they understood how it had already saved them? Did they know it was still saving them and promised to save them in the future? Would they understand that grace defined who they were and gave purpose to every piece of their lives?
This was the key for them; the linchpin.
And it is for you too. Without this, your faith is going nowhere.
The power of grace was working long before you said yes. It slowly moves you from sinner to saint, and directs your heart from hurrying to hope. Grace defines who you are and gives purpose and direction to your life.
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"For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age, while we wait for the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession, eager to do good works. Proclaim these things, encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you." (Titus 2:11-15 CSB)