As I was starting my devotions this morning I had a couple situations on my mind needing attention and I was unsettled because I knew how I would deal with them would not be as a new creation.  I was delaying until I had insight.  God showed it to me this morning.  In the book The Nature of Freedom it says:  “Grace doesn’t see what is wrong, but sees what is missing.”  That really hit me as truth.  However, I still didn’t know how to see what was missing.  All I could see was what was wrong.  As my devotions continued and I got to journaling, I asked God to help me with this.  He pointed out that throughout my life my problem has been largely with fear.  What was missing for me was trust.  He is now teaching me to replace my fear with trust.  As I applied this to the situations I wanted to address I could easily see the missing elements.  I don’t need to address at all what is wrong.  Addressing what is missing takes care of the wrong.  God is so magnificent!

Today is a beautiful spring morning.  What is even more beautiful is the love and grace of our God, Jesus and Holy Spirit.  Learning to trust them and to actually know how to trust them is simply amazing.  How long I have waited to learn this.