I was blessed recently with some thoughts on grace. The first one was how grace and humility often seem to go hand in hand in the Scriptures. You don't have one without the other. God's grace never makes a person proud.
...God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen. ~1 Peter 5:5-11
The second thing about grace is what beautiful things in can work in a person's life.The following passage on grace is one of my favorite Bible verses. It encompasses so many different thoughts - the grace of God, salvation, the beautiful way we can live through His grace, our blessed hope, the appearing of our Savior, the life that Jesus gave, our redemption, and more!
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. ~Titus 2:11-14
Allow His grace to work in your life today!
2 comments:
Thank you for this post, Anna . . . the grace of God truly is amazing isn't it? One of the men in our home church taught on grace recently and we looked at so many passages of Scripture that speak about it. And as you shared here, it is not only about God's grace in giving us salvation and eternal life, but in living our lives in His grace, walking in obedience to Him, our expectant hope that we look forward to, and much more. And I love how you closed this post . . . "Allow His grace to work in your life today." A wonderful reminder!
You're welcome, Sarah, and thank you for your comment! The grace of God was a hard concept for me to get a grasp on for a while, but now that I feel like I understand it better I, too, am finding it a very amazing thing!
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