God intervenes through grace. Our response to grace is thanksgiving. It’s a call and response, a cause and effect. Sunshine and water grow gardens, gratitude grows as we acknowledge God’s daily grace shower. But grace causes more than an explosion of gratitude, grace produces grit! Because of God’s grace, “…we do not lose heart,” St. Paul says. Grace-grit is knowing that though my outer nature might be wasting away my inner nature is being renewed. Grace-grit is knowing that my afflictions are momentary in comparison to the eternal nature of glory. Because of grace-grit I can thrive wherever I’m planted, no matter the storm because of a guaranteed supply of Son shine.
2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1