I experienced grace this morning. I go to a group gym every Monday and Friday. This time I had forgotten to reserve my place. There I was ready to exercise and my name was not on the list. Somehow I had not even realized I had forgotten it. Needless to say I felt frustrated and stupid. But the trainer extended me grace and allowed me in without reservation. It felt very, very good. It was undeserved grace, pure and simple.
That’s how God’s grace feels too.
That’s how it feels to be accepted as you are.
That’s how it feels to receive grace when you don’t deserve it.
Why then do we so often detain grace? We push it away and are determined to succeed on our own. We think of it as our last resource and are certain we will have time to make reservations for eternity. But what if life gets in the way and we simply forget? What if we don’t have as much time as we think we do?
God is gracious and he has done everything for us. Yet it’s still up to us to want his grace. We need grace to get our name on the Book of Life. Don’t detain grace. Don’t delay it. Don’t forget to ask for it. You need it to enter God’s kingdom.
For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; 9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.] (Eph. 2:8-9, AMP.*)
Don’t detain grace. Receive it today. Let it permeate every inch of your core being. Because it will feel marvelous to be at the pearly gate and find your name on the Book of Life. (And I’d like to meet you at Jesus’ feet.)
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Gracious God,
Thanks for calling me unto you.
Forgive me for delaying grace.
I love you, I love grace.
Don’t let me ever deny or delay grace.
I want my name to be on the Book of Life.
I want to spend eternity with you.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen
Q4U: Do you have your name on the Book of Life?
Be blessed, my fellow pilgrim, as you embrace grace daily!
Is The Do Not Detain List Real
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Like I said before, if you want to protect yourself from being subject to State codes and statutes, you gotta have EQUITY in something. I.e. you buy a car with gold or US coins, so you just didn't give the seller promissory FRN debt notes, but something of ACTUAL (intrinsic) value.Then you have an EQUITABLE CLAIM, and can argue that the State does NOT have security interest in that car. FYI, when you register your car, the State acquires PERFECTED SECURITY INTEREST in it. I.e. it has a LIEN against it, which is why it can make you obey State Vehicle Code.
But with an equitable claim, you can BAR the State from enforcing its Code against you, or otherwise get a REMEDY against the State, since Equity supersedes Law. That is, even if you lose the legal case against you, you still can get REMEDY in Equity. Here's what lawyers say about equitable claims:
There are two types of claims: legal and equitable. While plaintiffs pursuing a legal claim ask a court to award money, litigants bringing an equitable claim ask a court to either prompt or stop a particular action or event.
Equitable Claims
A plaintiff who seeks equitable relief is asking the court for an injunction. An injunction is a court order compelling a party to do or refrain from doing a specified act.
A court awards an injunction to prevent a future harmful action -- rather than to compensate for a past injury --or to provide relief from harm for which an award of money damages is not a satisfactory solution or for which a monetary value is impossible to calculate.
Example: The Springfield City Council decides to re-zone a parcel of residential land as commercial land. The neighbors, who own homes on the neighboring parcels, are not pleased by this decision. The neighbors can sue the City Council, and ask the court to issue a preliminary or permanent injunction to block the law from taking effect.
Do Not Detain List
In this example the neighbors can't just say we don't like the rezoning, they gotta have a VALID REASON, i.e. an Equitable claim. Such as that the rezoning will harm them, or decrease value of their properties, etc.So basically, when you buy a car with gold coins, and you're not a resident of their corporate State (no ZIP code in your address), then you could ask the court for injunction against the State, even before you get charged with any traffic violation. And if granted, then the corporate State would be barred from giving you any traffic tickets.
BTW, there already are some people who used injunction to be put on the DO NOT DETAIN list, so that when a cop pulls them over, he sees 'do not detain' in his car computer, and has no choice but to leave them go.
Federal Do Not Detain List
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