2390) For numerous reasons, when I was younger, I was often suspicious when someone paid me a compliment. Unfortunately, I sometimes still do this.

It isn’t because I think the person is lying to me; it’s because I figure they don’t know all the facts about me and if they did, there would be no compliment.

John 1:14 helps me with this “battle” within. It tells me the Word is full of grace and truth. He is grace, and he is truth.

Grace, simply stated, is receiving good things, even forgiveness of sin, when I don’t deserve it. After all, God knows everything about me.

Add truth to grace and it’s amazing.

Anytime God bestows grace upon me, whether forgiveness, patience or compliments, I need not come up with a list of why these things shouldn’t be given to me because the bottom line is I don’t deserve it and yet God gives it.

There is no place for the suspicion I describe here when it comes to God’s grace and truth. He gives it to me because Jesus died for me, demonstrating his love for me. Period.