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“The Master Artist is at work in your life, and with grace in the picture He wastes nothing, not even the choices you are most ashamed of.””

“ ‘in light of grace, we even learn to look at our sinful pasts differently,’ Smith writes. ‘Shame teaches me to look at my past and see something hideous that makes me regret my existence. In grace God looks at my past and sees the sketch of a work of art that He wants to finish painting, to show the world.’”

“‘ sometimes,” Sibbes writes,’ we continue to experience heavy conviction of sin even after conversion so that we can see that we live by mercy’”

In his mercy He wounds