Janice’s all-time favourite song is Good Grace by Hillsong United. It happens to be one of the few songs she doesn’t mind playing on repeat. The song never caught up with me until recently, when the gift of God’s grace was highlighted to me. The chorus goes like this: Don’t let your heart be troubled, Hold your head up high, Don’t fear no evil, Fix your eyes on this one truth, God is madly in love with you, Take courage, Hold on, Be strong, Remember where our help comes from. The song talks about the courage and confidence we have in God because of God’s good grace. There are countless mentions of the word Grace in Paul’s letters. We casually use it when asked about how we are; we say “by God’s grace”. I found myself so intrigued by it and started asking all these questions.

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The Oxford dictionary has defined hope as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen, grounds for believing that something good may happen”. With all that the world is experiencing, it can sometimes feel like the end is here, and all the promises of God are never going to be seen. If I can take you back to New Year’s Day 2020, what was your hope level like concerning the year? I bet it was in the higher range! I am sure you were fired up for the year and ready to conquer the world. How hopeful are you about the rest of the year with everything happening now? Is your current vision for the year being clouded by what you hear on the news or by the promises of God?

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Growing up, I always thought it was ok for a bad things to happen to bad people. I believed in the rule of reaping and sowing; you know, what you sow is what you get. There have been countless times I thought people deserved the stuff they are going through because they caused it in the first place. The scientists put it this way, ‘action and reaction are equal and opposite‘. When I played the brother of the prodigal son,  if you are familiar with that bible story or when I played Jonah who wants the City of Nineveh to be destroyed because they are sinners. Yeah, I know you must be shocked and disappointed  to read this and must be thinking, “What a self-righteous writer!” But before you pick up your rock to stone me, just give me a few minutes of your time to defend myself. (more…)