UNDERSTANDING GRACE; BENEFITTING FROM GRACE.
Ephesians 2:8-9 says: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest anyone should boast.”
*Grace is not earned or achieved by any means humanly possible. Grace is a gift from God. Grace is commonly defined as the unmerited favour of God to humanity. You don’t buy it; you don’t sweat or work for it.
*For the Christian, Grace is sufficient and everything; and without it we can do nothing on our own. Grace brought us righteousness, salvation, healing, protection, prosperity and many more.
*However, and in all of these, we are warned not to boast of this unearned and unmerited favour of God. Rather, we are told in 1Corinthians 1:31 that “. . . He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”
*If we are to boast about anything at all, it should be about being in the Lord, not the grace of God which we neither worked for nor merited.
*A good Christian is not expected to glory or boast about his or her achievements, let alone unmerited and unearned gift of God, called Grace.
*Even though St Paul laboured most, he said in 1Corinthians 15:10 — “. . . but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.”
*To understand and benefit from the Grace of God, a Christian should put confidence in the Grace of God and not human abilities.
*How can one fall from Grace, you may want to ask? Galatians 5:4 says that you fall from Grace when you try to work hard to be justified by the law (read).
Lord i put my confidence in your grace for it is sufficient for ma 🙏
THANK YOU LORD FOR THE GRACE TO GLORY IN CHRIST JESUS! YOUR GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR ME AND MY HOUSEHOLD.
Grace can only come from God Almighty and it’s all sufficient for any child of God who believes.
Grace can only come from God Almighty and it’s all sufficient for any child of God who believes.