Since I was young, I have asked God how He plans to use my life. I struggled with the idea of self-significance, and I wanted to be an instrument for God. As I got older, I started to feel useless. Eventually, my typically happy, up-beat, joyous personality was worn, tired, and distraught. There was little else I could tell myself to encourage my mood.
A month later, I shared a question I had about God’s personality with some friends. I asked them, “If God has been everywhere forever, what did he do before he had any creation?” Laughing after I proposed the question, I called it, “Abby’s theological moment of the day” and thought nothing more of it. The next day, I decided to continue the trend. Again, I texted my friends a thought about God and called it “Abby’s theological moment of the day”. After a few days of this, I felt called to put more effort into the project. I started using my photography skills to create backgrounds for the thoughts. Every day, I took a photo, placed text on the photo, and sent it out to a number of different friends. After a few months of this process, I prayed about changing the name of the project. Since, without God’s grace alone, I would be lost, I changed the name to “Grace Alone”.
Shortly thereafter, I began praying about making more drastic changes. God continued to place it on my heart to expand Grace Alone, but I did not know how. I began to consider making a website for this little project. Some time later, this prayer became a reality when my father asked if I had ever considered making Grace Alone into a website. A few weeks later, a website was up and running, through God’s provision alone.
God taught me, through this wonderful opportunity, that small acts of obedience can be life changing. I simply need to obey with the small, daily tasks He assigns. From the time when I have started my Grace Alone mission, I have received messages from multiple people telling me how impactful the messages have been to their day. It has been a blessing to see God use my simple act of obedience – to continue sending daily messages – for His greater plan. Until God tells me to stop, I plan to continue finding ways to send out my messages to anyone that God puts in my life as a blessing for both their life and my own!