Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 24

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: If you’re a husband, you no longer say to your wife, “That’s a woman’s work.”

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t bring your spouse’s car home with the the fuel gauge kissing red.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You gaze at your navel less and watch for the kingdom more.

A sign you’re growing in grace: People don’t feel as rushed or herded by you as they used to.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re more excited about the arrival of the new heaven & earth than “exiting this mess”.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You get tons more excited thinking about the New Jerusalem than the old one.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You realize that God’s demand for a pure heart & clean hands is ONLY met in Christ.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t make your repentance, or its depth, contingent on someone else’s repentance.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re able to let people sit in hard situations without rescuing them prematurely.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You make better, more constructive choices when people begin to greatly irritate you.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You can enjoy a feast with guiltless delight & U can sacrifice eating with hubrisless joy.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t confuse not hurting with healing. Pain can be numbed, healing takes longer.

A sign you’re growing in grace: The main sign and wonder you’re interested in are the cross and resurrection of Jesus.

A sign you’re growing in grace: It’s not people’s imagination, you really ARE less arrogant and critical.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When people are sarcastic with you, you really want to respond in kind, but you don’t.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Your family and friends don’t have to call the “whambulance” for you as often.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When in a carping mood, you primarily complain about YOUR slow growth in Christ.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You cannot shop for groceries without being grateful you have money to feed your family.

A SYGG: The stoplight changes from red to green, the person in front of you pauses till it turns yellow, you don’t curse.

A SYGG: When you pass people who’ve been texting & driving with their knees, you don’t stare & glare at them homicidaly.