208: My Grace Journal, Year One

Following are some “journal entries” from this glorious unfolding of the revelation of grace in my life. Several years ago during the first year of my ambush of Grace, one morning I wrote down a list of what brought me ecstasy, a river of grateful thoughts to our Lord. Enjoy!

Grace Journal, Year 1

I am forgiven of my sins – past, present, and future. Not just of the sins I know of. Not just the sins that I have confessed. Not just my past sins. All of them.
When God looks at me, He sees me as righteous, not sinful.
God is happy with me, not mad at me.
I don’t have to prove anything to God. He is pleased with me.
God isn’t a nagger who convicts me of sin, always pointing out my faults. He’s the one who convicts me of righteousness – His righteousness. He’s the encouraging voice that says to me when I fall, “Tricia, get back up. That’s not who you are. You aren’t a sinner. You are the righteousness of God in Christ.”
God doesn’t remember my sin. He only remembers the good that I do.
When I look at Jesus, I am looking at God.
Jesus healed everyone.
Jesus smiles and laughs.
Jesus is never in a hurry.
His feet bring Good News. I am the lady who washed them and poured out her love on them. I am forgiven so much. Oh, how I love Him!
The blood of Jesus perpetually cleanses. I sin, I’m clean. I sin, I’m clean. Grace is greater than all my sin.
I don’t want to sin anymore.
God’s demonstration of love overwhelms me. The blood trickling through the nail-piercings in His hands says, “My peace I leave you.”
The blood dripping from his head from the crown of thorns says, “You are whole.”
The blood gushing from His side says, “I love you.”
The stripes on His back say, “You are healed.”
His bruises, His face all torn up, His head hung low, His nakedness all says to me, “I became sin that you might become righteous.”
He was forsaken that I might be accepted.
He became poor that I might become rich.
He said, “My God, My God! Why have you forsaken Me?!” So that I might say, “My God, My God! Why have you so blessed me?!”
He called God “God” that I might call Him “Father.”
I don’t have to focus on my love for Him anymore. Now I just enjoy His love for me.
No more work. Rest. Labor to enter the rest. Work at not working. Labor more abundantly – but not I, the grace of God in me.
The power for my wholeness, healing, and peace is in the simplicity of the Gospel. Not in fasting. Not in prayer. Not in serving. All of that is good, but that’s not where the power is. It’s in the Gospel – Jesus Christ laid down His life for me.
There is nothing standing between me and God anymore. Nothing. Not even my sin.
I am the temple of the Holy Spirit. He will never leave me nor forsake me. He will abide with me forever and ever and ever. Even when I fail, He will not leave me.
I am a prisoner of hope. Even if I tried to run, I couldn’t get away from His love!

(from pages 306-307 of Unveiling Jesus)

Unveiling Jesus, by Tricia Gunn, is a verse by verse study of the pure gospel of grace. It’s an amazing journey of love, identity, and freedom in Christ.

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