---Saved By Grace ~~

--"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God."
---[Ephesians 2:8/ ESV] -- angelwing

--ONE of my best friends wishes that he had faith. He wants to believe in God, but doesn't. He has been arguing with God, and against God, since he was a teenager. Now he's talking with me about it all.

"I went to church last month, every Sunday."

You did?" I reply, surprised.
"Yes. I even cried."

"When? Or...I mean ...what in the service made you cry?" I ask

"Some children were being baptized. It was so beautiful," he says.

"My friend was raised in church. He was, in fact baptized as a young person, but then a few years later he left in anger.

When he says to me, "I want to believe, Jon," it confuses me. I mean if someone wants to believe, doesn't that mean they, at least, in part, already do believe? I'm unsure. But I know that the Holy Spirit is at work in my honest, God-wrestling friend, in ways that only God fully knows.

-"Lord Jesus, today I bring before You those who do not yet know You. They are Yours to love. Please draw them closer to Yourself. Thank You, Lord. amen" ~

Guideposts/JMS~

--"Revivals In the Air" // Kasie Foster // <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AucnAbxztEc>
--Edit/ Adding Song / Be blessed ! smile

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]