Amy Seiffert - Grace Looks Amazing on You: 100 Days of Reflecting Gods Love

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Grace Looks Amazing on You: 100 Days of Reflecting Gods Love

Copyright 2020 by Amy Seiffert. All rights reserved.

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AMAZING IS NOT THE WORD I would use to describe myself. I have judged a mom for yelling at her kids in the grocery store parking lot (why cant she get it under control?) only to close the car door and lose it on my own kids. I have blamed everyone else around me for my bad day instead of looking at my own bitter attitude. And even though Im a church leader, I currently have several unpaid parking tickets. Amazing? Hardly.

So when you first read the title of this book, you may have been thinking, No way is this me. Or if you received this as a gift, perhaps you thought it was meant for someone else. Someone who truly does look amazing.

But this is precisely why grace is so fabulous and appealing to me.

You dont have to dress up or look the part to get grace. In fact, you cant.

So often I try to gain approval by wearing my best behavior, promising to do better with my daily Bible reading, and keeping my family on a healthy meal plan. Other times I throw up my hands and bum around in a pity-party outfit because I keep failing at all these things.

It turns out earning our way is simply not included in the fabric of grace. Instead, grace is woven with gift after gift from God. Its about Him, who He is, and what He has done not us and who we are or arent. Its about trusting in Jesus our true source of grace and reflecting His love to the world.

Sister, no matter how hard we try, our most put-together self is still rags compared to the richness of the Most High God. He looks at you at your best and your worst and says, My grace looks amazing on you. Like all gifts, its a gift you must receive. It takes humility to accept grace, but the posture of a humble heart is stunning in Gods Kingdom.

And because youve opened this book, youve unlocked a world of tangible thoughts and stories of how His grace looks amazing on you. Even on your most un-amazing days. In fact, especially on those days. In the middle of the night, holding back your daughters hair as she hunches over the toilet? Thats grace looking beautiful on you. Seeking forgiveness from a friend after exchanging harsh words? Grace is your gown. Waking up on an ordinary Monday and being content with where God has placed you? Grace is guiding your steps. Opening Gods Word when the words feel as thin as the onion-skin pages theyre on? This is grace looking gorgeous on you.

So whats the best way to approach this book? I absolutely love seeing women link arms, discuss ideas, and share their stories in the same space. That space becomes sacred as we are face-to-face with another soul. So if I may, can I recommend reading this with a friend? Or five? But this may also be a book for just you and God to share together. Whichever way you choose, I pray God will show you how to reflect His grace through confidence, soul care, contentment, overcoming, faithfulness, and trust. I hope you will see, touch, and taste grace with each page you turn. And as your perspective changes about God, others, and yourself, so will your entire life.

WALKING IN HIS GRACE WITH YOU TODAY,

Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

HEBREWS 4:16, NIV

The Spirit of the Sovereign L ORD is on me, because the L ORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor... to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the L ORD for the display of his splendor. ISAIAH 61:1, 3, NIV

R ECENTLY I WAS WALKING a wooded path I know by heart, with my earbuds in and the music moving me along. I looked up for a moment, and what I saw made me stop. The trees were just asking to be noticed. It was early fall, and the colors were arresting some still gloriously green, others bright yellows and brilliant oranges. Each one showing off in its own way.