Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 18

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: You remain humble & grateful when God uses someone more powerfully than you in your city.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You can spot heresies quicker than ever, but you’re also less arrogant than ever.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You still get feelings of disdain, but you don’t show or speak with as much contempt.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You fully enjoy Christian liberty & you fully enjoy limiting your freedom out of love.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’ll work hard today at your MAIN work: Believing in Jesus, the sent One. Jn. 6:29

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’ll humbly test the sufficiency of God’s grace today when provoked, betrayed or failed.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re learning to invest your vapor-like existence in things that will last forever.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You look to grow through things, not just get over things. Change means more than relief.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re learning how to correct your children without crushing their spirits.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Instead of jumping to conclusions, you now lovingly saunter towards them.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Fewer sighs of irritation, more signs of sanctification.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Your spouse doesn’t have to ask as often, “Are you SURE you still love me?”

A sign you’re growing in grace: You receive “gospel bread” and wheat bread equally as gifts of mercy, and you share both.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You know that tornadoes & floods come to the just & the unjust, so you love & serve both.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You no longer use bad eschatology or liberalism as an excuse for NOT doing mercy ministry.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You no longer obsess about “turning non-believers off”. You simply try to love people well.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Putting on the whole armour of God makes you think of King Jesus, not Sir Galahad.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t think of being married to Jesus as a metaphor, but as your greatest honor & joy.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You anticipate the gospel taking you from the surface sin, to your idols, to Jesus.