My Grace Needs Help
I’ve heard and sung about God’s amazing grace all my life. Though we make mistakes and have not-nice attitudes and are weak in our faithfulness to Him and others, He loves us deeply anyway.
Grace — His unmerited favor — is always helping us in our weaknesses. “But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, I will boast more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
God’s grace is a beautiful and powerful word that describes how He loves us deeply ANYWAY! And, with the grace we’ve been given — it is grace we pay forward to others.
Lord, have mercy! Speaking of my weaknesses, I am not challenged with my own grace. But when someone who is egotistical, boisterous, and way-too-loud-and-talkative, my peaceful feathers can sure get ruffled.
That’s when I think God is working on me more than that person because I’ve found myself realizing my grace isn’t even close to God’s grace. That means I need to have more “little talks with Jesus to make it right”!
I’ve heard plenty of “grace” stories and messages. But what has taught me the most? My own story and the stories of others who have fully experienced grace. An almost car accident – BUT God! An almost failed grade, BUT God! A career door opened, BUT God! Healing mentally and physically – BUT God!
Indeed, God’s grace is amazing. We can never sink so far that God’s grace will not reach us. At the same time, GRACE does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights, causes us to demonstrate that grace to others in words and actions.
My prayer is that God’s grace is what causes us to experience the grace effect in our lives so much so that no matter what has been done to us that we will choose grace for our offenders. That we make daily decisions to pour out grace to others as grace has been poured out to us.
This is my prayer today. May it also be yours: Lord, help us to not simply comprehend Your grace but to live it and give it to others. In Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen.