What is Grace? Grace comes from God, it is His exclusive reserve and He does not give it on the basis of merit. We have always thought that grace is just unmerited favour; God giving you what you do not qualify for or putting you on the line when it is naturally not your turn. That is only an aspect of grace, but it is beyond that because you can earn favour through hard work or any other means and still not enjoy grace. But you can’t earn grace, yet once you have it, you have favour. Grace, in it’s fullness, is divine help or ‘divine take over.’ No matter how strong you are, there would be times in your life when you need a divine ‘link’ to take over for you. So, grace is a divine leverage; something you can lean on when you become exhausted or when you get to your wits end. Grace is not faith or effort, it is a divine reserve that enables you to start the journey with renewed vigour when you would naturally have given up. So when you get to a cross road and you don’t know what next to do or your efforts seem not to be producing the desired results, don’t feel condemned, simply link up to grace. Call for grace, no matter the area of life in which you need it. The Purpose of grace is to raise men. Until grace locates you for a raise., you remain a struggler. However, the man that qualifies most for grace is not the smart, strong or eloquent, but the helpless. Moses was at the back of the desert, where he had fled due to frustration and helplessness. But when grace located him he went from rearing cattle to become one of the greatest leaders that ever lived. Paul the apostle wrote more about grace than any other apostle because of the great lifting that he enjoyed. He said, For I am the least of the apostles… That means he did not have the qualifications that others had. But he said, …By the grace of God I am what I am… (1Cor. 15:9-10). Grace also raises dead issues back to life. It gives you fulfillment through the supply of all sufficiency in all that you require to make it in life. …God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work (2Corinthians 9:8). To be ‘sufficient’ means to be able, adequate and competent. So, when you have grace you have enough in all areas of your life. Often times, the challenges of life require that you exceed your size or operate beyond the realms of human abilities. That is when you need grace because grace means operating with the ability of God. When you have grace you have God and whatever cannot stop God will never be able to stop you. It is my prayer that all through your life, the grace of God will not fail you. Meditate on these: Isaiah 46:3-4, Psalm 40:17
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:43:02 +0000
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