An eternal present moment moves through every moment in time as a weld moves down a seam. God’s eternal purpose for us moves through every moment in our lives - intentions to prosper us, to give us hope and a future from which God carried us into exile that we be heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ when we see Christ to be like him for us to be conformed to the image of Christ. that we seek and find God to bring us back to the place God creates us at a level where we can participate with God in God’s eternally continuing creation - both in us as we become more and more like Christ, and in the world as God creates more and more shalom. Grace is when God does something for us or gives something to us that we cannot achieve on our own. God’s continuing creation is a work of grace. The evil we internalized in Eden separates us from much of God’s grace. Christ’s sacrifice on the cross is a work of grace that provides opportunity for us to receive other grace from which our internalized evil separates us, including the highest grace,the greatest good: our life in God’s life, God’s life in our life.
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