There's nothing i can do about it right now... It's all such a long way from here...

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i'm sure there is something spiritually medicinal when sharing great wisdom from great men and women of God, even if, too often, not-great men can hardly believe these things, no matter how many times memorized or applied.

Just curious:
How many times have i cried out to the Savior to be Saved, or to the Beloved to be Loved?

it would seem that we are all spiritual goldfish, forgetting the works of our Father only mere moments from when they transpired and we were shaken to the core. Yet we are like a Library of Records of Events of Carnality, always quick to remember the difficulties and shame and hardships and failures.

indeed, we do not lose heart, though our outer man is decay (passing away), yet the inner man is being renewed day by day

but i've known the World and my Flesh for quite some time. This inner man, this Soul and Spirit, is quite an unacquainted stranger, even still (even though, we have met numerous times on numerous various accounts)

If i shared a little secret with the formulation of a question with this open space of blank text...
i'm not sure if the lack of weight and depth i am talking to would ever understand...
on the account that most things that are truly great and beautiful are too hard for us to understand
they're either too small or strange or wild or simple

they're always not what we want or expect
which is why we don't see them, i think.

So- this is the secret, wearing a costume of a question.

please consider-

Do you perchance know why it says in 2nd Corinthians 12
that "My Grace is SUFFICIENT for you;"?
if Grace abounds all the more, as it says in Romans, then why is Grace merely only "sufficient"?

i am literally afraid that no introduction or preface could or will make the congregation of readers/listeners understand the gravity and depth. i'm concerned that no prelude or prologue will deliver the life-changing power of such a point, alongside a conviction that cuts them to the heart and soul as mine own have been (Yet such is the case in many other areas of revelation that go unheeded simply because there is no promotion stable enough to hold the weight; not as a deterrence, but have you ever considered what Paul from Tarsus wrote and what the Holy Spirit meant; "the unfathomable riches of Christ" or "you were formerly darkness, but now you ARE light"?).

without further delaying and distraction

the reason that our particular verse concerning Grace is so specifically phrased as Sufficient and not more, is:

logically, deductively, inquisitively, spiritually, and just simply blunt:

because you need every drop of it.

because you need every single last drop of its mighty out-pouring that God inundates us with.

- and the sooner you figure that out, and retain it, and hold on to it every single moment of our seemingly pitiful existence;
the sooner we will all be great men and women of God, because we'll see how pitiful our existences truly are, without the entitling/vehicular Grace that leads to Empowerment from the Spirit and from the Resurrection of Christ, our glory.

For I, the LORD your God,
hold your right hand;
it is I who say to you, "Fear not,
I am the one who helps you." Fear not, you worm Jacob,
you men of Israel!
I am the one who helps you, declares the LORD;
your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.


worms generally don't do anything marvelous,
Yet God makes all things glorious