after all these hands have wrought, He forgives.

The simplicity of today being all we have, combined with the peace in knowing that God has a plan for our future and forgiveness for our past, is astounding. The crux of living the life of servants who are training to reign someday lies, i think, in the intersection of those three dimensions. To realize the depths of despair from which we have been rescued; to be all here now, genuinely seeking to give up self for the leading of the Spirit within; and to live in an expectant hope that God's Big Picture is exceedingly and perfectly beyond what we could ask or imagine.