The Truth About Grace
Romans 5:19-21 Amplified Bible (AMP)
19 For just as by one man’s disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness,
and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man’s obedience
the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into
right standing with Him). 20 But then Law came in, [only] to
expand and increase the trespass [making it more apparent and exciting
opposition]. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God’s
unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and
superabounded,21 So that, [just] as sin has reigned in death,
[so] grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through
righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus
Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord.
Yesterday my husband and I were having a conversation
about what God was speaking into our hearts and lives. During the midst of the conversation, and as
we began to look over our lives and how God had brought us to where we presently
are I realized how absolutely amazing Grace was then and is. Grace is defined as “God’s unmerited favor.” Grace is an abundant favor that we could not earn,
but was given to us, in spite of how retched of a person we were and are. You see I was not perfect, and nor was my
husband, we had some issues in our lives, but it was the hand of God and His
love for us that brought us out of those things into His marvelous grace. He favored our lives and blessed us with
first salvation and His limitless forgiveness, and then He had predestined us
and called us, even when we were not acting like it, or living in situations
that were conducive to that call being shown or revealed in us, God’s grace said
it was still so.
You see the truth about grace is that we are all living
under it at this very moment. Even in
our waking up, if we were to be truthful about it, we probably did not deserve
to see another day, but it is God’s grace that kept us, and allows us to
operate and function today. It is God’s
amazing grace that gives us that favor that we experience; being blessed in the
city and in the field, blessed when we come and go, and it opens doors that no
man could. We live under the grace that
God will change our circumstance when we have no clue how we are going to get
out of the situations we find ourselves in.
God’s grace brings healing when no doctor can, it brings love when your
life has been loveless, it brings deliverance when you have been left for dead
(spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically). Grace will keep you even when you do not deserve
to be kept and until you come into the understanding that you really cannot
make it without God and in stark reality you have not made it without Him thus
far. Yes the truth about Grace is that none of us deserve it, but it is a
benefit of God that He gives, and none of us have the ability to create, but we
can receive it, and we can give it because it has been given to us.
As I woke up this morning a song resonated in my spirit
and I laid and bed and sang it to the Lord.
This song is my response to God’s “Amazing Grace,” “I love you, I love you< I love you Lord
today, because you cared for me in such a special way, that is why I praise you
and lift you up and I magnify you name that’s why my heart is filled with
praise. My heart, my soul my mind
belongs to you; you paid the price for me way back on Calvary. That’s why I
praise you I lift you up and I magnify your name, that’s why my heart is filled
with praise…By Edwin Hawkins
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