John 1:14, 16-17
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His
glory,
glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and
truth . . .
For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through
Jesus Christ.
Brothers and Sisters of my
heart,
You have probably heard the
idiom, ‘where there is smoke there is fire’. Truth is often found in an
idiom. Albeit the source of all truth is God’s word the Bible. Hear this powerful idiom: ‘where
there’s sin in abundance, there’s even more grace in abundance.’ This reflects
the Truth we find in Romans 5:20-21:
‘but where sin increased,
grace abounded all the more, so that, as
sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’
That
is truth enough to live on until Christ returns for us! As we grow in likeness
to Christ God reveals our sin to us, allowing trials to expose it. Think how
terrible that would be if it were not for grace! Dreadful except for the Truth found
in Romans chapters 5-8. Romans is rich with life changing truth.
I
want to share the beginning of a poem I read yesterday.
Drive Me Deep to Face Myself
Lord, grant me
your peace for I have made peace with
What does not
give peace, and I am afraid.
Drive me deep,
now, to face myself so I may see
That what I
truly need to fear is my capacity to deceive
And my
willingness to be deceived,
my loving of
things and using of people, T. L.
Thankfully there is ‘grace’,
unlimited, beautiful grace. Sets my feet to dancing!
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of
our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace Ephesians
1:7
Grace is
infinite, but I don’t want you to strain to understand infinitude. God never measures
anything else in Himself, against Himself. That is, God never measures His
grace against His justice or His mercy against His love. God is all one. But
God measures His grace against our sin. (read the scripture above again.) There
is nothing in God that can compare itself with anything else in God. What God
is, God is. When scripture says grace does ‘much more’ abound,’ it means not
that grace does much more abound than anything else in God but much more than
anything in us. a.w.t.
Hallelujah! Celebrate this
Truth that has the power to overwhelm. This One who is outside of time, who
cannot be contained or measured by any dimension, is our great God! Let us live
aware of the daily bread of His grace, us who are hopeless sinners and helpless
without Him, how is it possible? It is incomprehensibly immense and vast! Our
small brains cannot and never will be able to grasp the greatness of His being. Do you
think God would have put up with us for all these years if He had a
limited amount of grace? How vast and immeasurable to forgive all my sin
and make me His beloved child.
‘to
the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the
Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and
insight.’ Ephesians 1:6-7
As we
grow in God’s grace,
the more we will see that it comes at Christ’s expense. The more deeply we believe this
truth, the more we see we are totally undeserving.
Let us embrace this truth and celebrate
our beautiful Savior-God, Giver of all grace.
Father of all
grace, Immeasurable One, beyond numbers or words or space, uncontainable,
forever God, It overwhelms that You would bend low and pick me from the dung
pile of self-righteousness and sin and wash my sin away and give me a new
nature, and then indwell me by Your holy Spirit, that I might know You personally
and be forever changed, from glory to glory, into Your likeness. We are in awe
of You Holy, immeasurable One. I thank You.
Dear ones, I hope you have
been encouraged over God’s great love for you! He says even the hairs on your
head are all numbered. Praying for you all.
Until every
knee shall bow,
az
