Grace Beyond Measure
Posted by Rebecca Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:55:00 GMT
God is a God of new beginnings. He is a God of second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventy times seven chances.
He restores all things, making them new. Out of His riches He dumps blessings on His children.
All of these attributes are aspects and evidence of His deep, deep grace.
He has extended this grace to me, before I even knew it existed. I’ve been seeking to know and understand His grace, and by His gracious nature He is opening my eyes, enabling me to see the oceans of grace with which He inundates my life.
By His grace, I am reconciled with those who have every right to blot me from their memory and never speak to me again.
By His grace He brought me safely home from Israel.
By His grace He took me safely to Israel.
By His grace He provided financially for me to go to Israel.
By His grace He invited me to Israel.
By His grace He gave me hope and a future, a community, and a family.
By His grace He made a way for me to be with Him, by providing His Son as payment for my sin. He gave what He loved most to save me from a bleak and otherwise inescapable fate.
By His grace He makes my heart to beat.
By His grace He makes me to draw breath.
By His grace I am alive.
By His grace He made me.
By His grace He wanted me to exist.
By His grace He imagined me.
Daily I bathe in a sea of blessings I can do nothing to earn. His grace engulfs me. I see it, hear it, touch it, taste it, smell it, and still I do not even come close to fully understanding it.
“What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him?” –Job 7:17
Take heart and be hopeful. We live in a graceless world, but we worship a gracious God.