The Bridge - post at Out of the Ordinary

Suffering is an issue that's always on the back burner of my mind. My new post at Out of the Ordinary is a result of meditating on Sunday's sermon on Job, a chapter in The Gospel Centered Woman, the reality of life and the reality of grace.

We have a bridge between our godly longing and our fallen reality that sufficiently equips us to deal with each struggle.

It is the gospel.

The gospel is the bridge. God has done something through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ by which He is able to make "all grace abound to you." He has done something through Christ that sufficiently quips you and I so that we are abundantly supplied for every good work he has called us to do, this kingdom living that stands in such stark contrast with our fallen earthly reality. ¹

Read more here.

1. The Gospel Centered Woman by Wendy Alsup, 2012, pg. 37.