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It has been given

Josh:24:12-13
It was not your swords or bows that brought you victory. I gave you land you had not worked on and I gave you towns you did not build - the towns where you are now living. I gave you vineyards and olive grooves for food, though you did not plant them.
When I look back into my life, there is one thing which strikes out. That I have things in my life which I have not laboured for. All I have is a gift. There were more deserving than me. But God chose to gift me, bless me.
My education - there were more deserving and hardworking kids in my school and college than me. But where am I right now - I can look back and thank Him only.
My family - How many broken families I see around, with children turning renegades against their own parents. It's not that I have laboured hard. But God has been gracious. And I thank God for the love of my life, whom I do not deserve.
My parents, the example they have set before me in faith life especially. That's not also something which I can boast about right?
Most importantly my salvation. That's something of surity I can say, I have not deserved it. Rebel as I was, enemy as I was, that's when He chose me. To love me, to make Him known to me, to make me His own.
Deep down I know I do not deserve. It has all been grace. It has all been given.
Thank you my ABBA.

1 Cor:4:7 What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did not receive it why do you boast as though you did not?

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