How should we then live?

How should we then live? 

If we've been given grace, what then? 

Do we wallow away in the way we had been doing things or do we make a radical change? 

In this day and age, change is something easy to discuss but harder to practice. 

How much should we change? 

How much of the status quo needs to be rearranged or better yet erased? 

It's hard to figure out how much to give up. 

Should we sell all our possessions and follow him? 

Should we love our neighbors as ourselves? 

Can we love our enemies? 

What's stopping us? 

I know I'm afraid. 

I know my limitations. 

And I have hesitations about how far to go.

 I feel like I'm doing a pretty decent job but there are areas to improve. 

People to love. 

Things to do. 

I'm nowhere near perfect. 

But mercy triumphs over judgment. 

Your helper and advocate guide me to all truths. 

Your spirit helps me to help others. To see the forgotten. 

To love the unloved and unloveable. 

God, give me grace for the day.

 Change me and form me and use me for your kingdom. 

My heart says yes, but I still am afraid.

 Help me in my unbelief. 

Help me to do the things that you have called me to do. 

What's stopping me from helping others? 

Myself. 

I am my own stumbling block.

 And I get stuck. 

And it's tough. 

And it sucks. 

And all that. 

God, help me. 

Come Holy Spirit and use me however and wherever. 

I am yours. 

Here I am. 

Send me.