Two words

There are two words in the Bible that I love. I love them so much because they give me hope. They give me a sense of security. They show me love, mercy, grace, kindness, patience and give me a reason to rejoice. They strengthen my faith. These two words show me that even when I am living in sin. When I have chosen to run from God. When I am mad, sad and rotten towards God, He is still there. These two words are profound and show us what kind of God that we have. They are two words that most of us when we see them in the Bible skip right over them because we want to get to the good stuff. But the truth of the matter is the good stuff is in these two words. Because these two words give me life that no one else can give. They give me a salvation that no one else can give. They show me that my life has nothing to do with me. They show me that no matter how much I try and do for God He will always out do me. They show me that no matter how much I try and be for God He will always be more. It shows me that I can't do it on my own, I actually can't do anything at all with out these two words. It shows me that God serves me, fills me, and gives me what I do not deserve but He graciously pours out on me and in me because He loves me. The two words are simply this... But God. Ephesians 2:1-10 says it all  
¹ And you were dead in the trespasses and sins ² in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— ³among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. ⁴But God, being rich in mercy,because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ⁶and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing;  it is the gift of God, ⁹not a result of works, so that no one may boast. ¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. 


Read over this verse and see yourself in those first three verses and then see in the rest what God does for us despite who we are. WOW we have an amazing GOD!!! Because without those two words I remain the person in the first three verses and I never become the last seven. Two of the most powerful words in the Bible...But God.