Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 16

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: You exercise wisdom & care when sharing prayer requests about your spouse & children.

A sign you’re growing in grace: It doesn’t take you as long to humble yourself before your spouse and kids.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re learning the difference between worshipping God and listening to worship music.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re more likely to drink motor than to nurse a grudge or fertilize roots of bitterness.

A sign you’re growing in grace: More than ever, you pray & work for unity in the Body of Christ & in your church family.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You are actively seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When you start sabotaging a conversation with your pettiness and pickiness, you repent.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Taking up your cross doesn’t mean putting on a necklace or a “witness” T-shirt.

A sign you’re growing in grace: No one feels the need to stop telling their joke when you enter the room.

A sign you’re growing in grace: People respect your faith but they don’t usually refer to you as a “religious person”.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re commitment to loving well trumps your “need” to be understood and liked.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When in the grocery store, you don’t scarf down a pile of sample foods meant for many.

A sign you’re growing in grace: The little book in which you keep a record of wrongs done to you has less pages than ever.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You spend your heart for others rather than just spending money on yourself.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You realize how easily and often you assign YOUR meaning to other people’s words.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You take the extra time to make sure you understand what someone is trying to say.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Like Paul, you don’t judge anyone’s heart, including your own. 1 Cor. 4:3

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t impute as many bad motives to people who disappoint or disagree with you.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When people run late, it bothers you, but you don’t punish with toxic body language.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Pre-loving is beginning to trump pre-judging as your relational style.