week 4 questions 8 (pages 64-65)
we are to read pages 69-70 in our book Truefaced Experience.
Write down ways you can tell when you are in an environment of grace.
A grace filled environment is one in which people realize you could do better but for some reason, maybe beyond their understanding, you do not. Yet they respond to you as though you did do the right thing after all.
What is it that gives us the confidence to approach a holy God in our unholy state? (See Hebrews 4:16)
The fact that He says He wants us to draw nigh unto Him. I know there is no way that I can ever be holy as He is holy, (in my own strength) , yet I accept that He gives me the benefits of being holy and approach Him.
What is it that gives us the confidence to remove our masks before Him? (see 2 Corinthians 3:18)
To know that His likeness is transformed to us as we come before Him in an unhidden state. We must be open to His Holy Spirit. It says it plainly to me here. If I think I earn His presence by doing some good thing , I surely quench the Spirit. It is after this meeting of the Spirit that we are able to do good, not before.