To me, grace is so amazing because it is all about God’s love and favour which He lavishes on us even though we don’t deserve it.  While we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  Why? Because God loves you so much that He sent His one and only Beloved Son to die on the Cross at Calvary for you.

Grace is not about what we have done but what God has done.

Like Jesus told His disciples to rejoice not only because the demons submitted to them, but rejoice that their names were written in the Lamb’s book of Life.

Thought for Today by Mrs Xandria Sik, CFO at VCC

Not wanting to downplay the importance of confession as exhorted by James 5:16 (‘…confess your sins one to another…’)  I too began analysing my own life and the sins I might have committed knowingly  and in ignorance.

After going through the rigours of confessions for a few weeks and pondering on it, I discovered that my outlook on life and of God was quite negative!   I was going through each day trying to pick faults in myself and looking at areas where I had gone wrong.  My view of God was of Someone high and aloof Who is ever ready to punish us for the sins we mortals commit everyday.

So I determined to make a positive change.  I told my son that from now on” we are going to focus on thanking God for whatever little or big things he has done in our life every day.” Instead of fishing for things I have done wrong which might have angered my Father God, I will start to fish for things that He has done to help me – and give thanks to Him and rejoice in Him.

I believe we will be positively different people when we start living life by confessing the goodness and love of God everyday, and deliberately looking for things that happen during the day that we can thank and praise Him for.   Life will become a lot more liberating and positive.

Philippians 4:4  “Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice”.  The scripture does not say “confess and again I say confess.”

So rejoice – be like the psalmist and sing his songs of thanksgiving to the Lord.

Blogged by Mrs Xandria Sik – VCC’s Chief Financial Officer