“Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)
What are some vital things we need to know about God’s grace?
Grace is a gift of God. Grace is the exclusive preserve of God and he dispenses it at His own will alone hence it is God’s gift and by grace and no human should boast. (Ephesians 2: 8-9).
Therefore the power to overcome every challenge is of grace and the grace of God at Christ’s expense is available to you today if only you could ask God in faith.
Through faith, you can trust Jesus to receive every grace God has made available to you because of His divine goodness.
Grace is full of forgiveness. Psalm 86:5) says, “You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love”. It’s God’s spiritual instinct to love and forgive you if you will confess your sin and come near to Jesus. In the same manner, God also requires you to forgive all who have offended you just as He forgives you your sins.
Grace is divine and doesn’t discriminate between people: God reserves his right to choose whosoever he will to come to him. In (Romans 9:15) God says, “ I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
God has chosen you for his divine grace today but He is asking you to also freely dispense forgiveness to all those who have offended you. If God doesn’t discriminate in how he dispenses His grace then there shouldn’t be any form of discrimination in the way you relate to your fellow men.
God has chosen you for His grace because His grace is free and He extends it to anyone without consideration for human qualifications. His Grace is available to you today if you will humble yourself to ask for it.
After all, Jesus says: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water”. (John 7:37).
Human qualification of perfection has no place in the scheme of divine grace. God justifies the ungodly by faith (Romans 4:5). God is not asking you to impress Him in whatever way before He can dispense His grace to you.
Why? Because God always shows His mercies to the undeserving and disqualified. God deliberately picks those that society has written off to be the recipients of His loving kindness and tender mercies.
There are plethora of people across the ages who were written off by humans but qualified for great things by God. So beloved your case is never a hopeless case only if you open up your heart to Jesus and ask for the grace of God in any way you need it.
To take this further there is no sinner no matter how wicked that is beyond the reach of God’s grace. One may ask in shame: If you only knew the things I have done! How could God ever forgive me? This is a common saying when a sinner encounters the perfect grace of God.
Isaiah saw the glory of God as His presence filled the temple and he cried out, “Woe to me, I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5). The Apostle Paul called himself “the worst of sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15).
Grace is perfect in weakness and not in your strength. (2 Corinthians 12:9). God is always at His best when you are at your worst and when you are at your weakest. Why? To show you that His Grace is abounding in love and that His strength is available to see you through all your challenges.
In God’s school of Grace, brokenness often precedes grace which then ignites a passion for God’s reliance and not self-reliance. Your travails are for a divine purpose. Therefore divine grace serves to deepen your faith in God.
Beloved this Grace of God is available to you today if you ask the Lord for it. Jesus is faithful and He has said: “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness”.
Reading
Isaiah 43:1-7
