Envy denies grace. The assumption of envy is that we deserve what another has been given, when, in fact, you and I deserve nothing.

It's a tragedy when we praise God for his grace on Sunday and deny our need for that grace the rest of the week. Face

You and I need to say it to ourselves again and again. We need to look in the mirror and make the confession as part of our morning routine. Here's what we all need to say: "I am not a grace graduate.

We all tend to want to think we are more righteous than we actually are.

Because accepting blame is not natural, it takes rescuing, transforming grace to produce a humble, willing, broken, self-examining, help-seeking heart. Only divine grace can soften a person's heart. Only grace can help your eyes to see what you need to see. Only grace can decimate your defenses and lead you to confess. Only grace can cause you to quit pointing your finger and to run to your Redeemer for his forgiveness and delivering power.

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.

If you mourn the fallenness of your world rather than curse its difficulties, you know that grace has visited you.

We must remember that more is accomplished with the favor of God than with the favor of man.

you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit." — LEVITICUS 26:16-20

The grace factor will be revealed in three areas of your life: grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

Grace for the place is grace for your position.