Diary of A Christian Law Lady

Hello!!!

Welcome to my blog, I’m sooo in my feelings right now. Just this weekend, I took two bold steps of going on adventures that have been in my plans over the last months, one of which is blogging and the second is getting a pretty haircut, (we’ll go into the story behind this in some other post😅) and I’m all excited!

To be cliché, I ordinarily would have gotten into details about myself, but there’s something that super exceeds how awesome I am, which is ‘God’s good grace’ and this post will be all about that✨.

To me, God’s grace has always felt like showers. Him pouring it all out on me and me taking it all in😌. As soothening as this sounds, some days recognizing and receiving grace isn’t all easy. Yet in these moments, one thing that’s ever striking is God doesn’t put a hold on His grace. He gives it all out as much as He always has.

One reason I think we are quick to overlook grace as people, is because we want an explanation to everything. Grace however, is simply what it is, it’s God’s system of approving our justification because we have faith in Christ’s sacrifice. He doesn’t give more or less or according to discretion, grace is to all of God’s people.

Like David had put into description the blessings of a man on whom no sin is imputed. This is where grace sets us, regardless of our actions and inactions, we are absolutely not liable to face sin’s consequences.

For most of my stay in the University, I have made an habit of late travels. Funnily, it’s almost never intentional or premeditated. Things just pop up and voila! I’m not in a bus till it’s 5pm or thereabout and on all of these days I get to my destination almost before midnight. I like to see it as an addition to my ‘Bravery badge’. Most times, it however doesn’t seem as much a brave decision till I arrive my destination.

Some months ago, I was in another episode of my late travels, only it wasn’t as cool this time. The bus was stranded in a spot for hours, and it was raining so heavily that I couldn’t consider a detour. It was getting really late and we had been on a 30 minutes distance for over 3 hours. In that moment I thought ‘ temi bami ‘, the voices in my head were all ‘ Yes Sandra, you’re so getting to Ibadan by 1am today and it’s all your fault. Don’t travel late but you never listen, look how far you’ve come ‘. I put my mask on, head down and began silent tears because looking at the situation, it was my fault.

As I had my moment, a different light dawned in my spirit, and I saw how utterly wrong my approach had been cos it really wasn’t changing anything. I began to think, ‘ what has God’s grace got to say about this ‘ and though the circumstance still appeared the same, my grace consciousness made everything different. I spoke bold words, prayed over the journey ahead and got wisdom for what to do. No, I didn’t get to Ibadan by 1am👀, it was about 11:30pm😅(same thing) when I got to my destination.

Now, while night travels aren’t always the best (I’m working on it), and it’s possible to live perfectly intentional lives. God in all these never changes His stance on pouring out His grace on us. His grace is available in our rights to empower us to do more things pleasing unto Him, and in our seemingly wrongs to bring us back and keep us in His perfect will. The onus however is on us, to choose grace or jitteriness.

In ending this, I’ll say live conscious that you don’t need to merit God’s grace to have it. It’s grace or grace for me; that’s what works!