The Patience of Ordinary Grace

God often does His deepest work by the means we are most tempted to overlook.

There is a kind of faithfulness that makes very little noise. It opens the Bible again. It comes to worship again. It prays again, even when the prayer feels small.

The Reformed tradition has given us a helpful phrase for this: the ordinary means of grace. The Word read and preached, the sacraments, and prayer are not dramatic techniques. They are the ordinary pathways by which the Spirit keeps drawing us to Christ.

We do not need to manufacture a spiritual life. We need to keep returning to the places where God has promised to meet His people.


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