Grace for a lifetime

Grace for a life time was a phrase I read in "Losing Cooper". I think about that and the grace I have received over my life time. I think about the recent incident when I lost a tool and didn't feel it was right for me to ask God's help in finding it. I told God just that, I don't want to treat him like a heavenly GO-FOR. But as I finished talking to God about that, there was the tool I had been looking for. I feel like God said that's grace. You do not deserve it but God gives it anyway. Grace for a life time. When I married more than once because of foolish decisions, still God extended his grace to me and helped me. It was my fault I got into bad situations, but still his grace was extended to me. I am sure I faced unnecessary hardship because of my decisions but still God's grace was there to help me. I am not like him. I have not learned to love  unconditional like God. That's just it, God's grace is not extended one time and that's it. Over and over just like that tool when I didn't deserve God's help, God extended his grace again and again. It's not just when we do wrong, but as life happens, we don't always understand every situation. But again and again through out every thing that comes our way through life, God is there. John 10:27-28 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."  Matthew 28: ...."and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Hebrews 13:5...."for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." And so it is, we have seen God's people go through difficult times - Joseph thrown into prison - Daniel in a lions den - David after being anointed King ran for his life - The three Hebrew children into a furnace. In more recent times -Corrie Ten boom in a concentration camp. Martin Luther King Jr in jail and eventually shot. Medgar Evers shot. Countless others that served God went through some things but I'll bet eternity is worth it all. If any one says that you become a christian and every thing is going to be good from there on, they are lying to you. Being a Christian does not mean you will never face a hardship again but you will not go through it alone. God tells us it rains on the just and unjust alike. There will be enough of God's grace to get you through. Not everyone will face a tragedy like JJ and Melanie Jasper. What ever you go through will be painful to you, it may be more or less than the person next to you, but God's grace will get you through. JJ and Melanie did not feel they could have made it through their ordeal without God's help. Are you ready for what life will send your way? You can be when you are anchored to the Rock of Ages, Jesus Christ.  God bless, LVZ.