How Amazing is Grace?!
2 Corinthians 12:9 But the Lord said, “My grace is all you need. Only when you are weak can everything be done completely by my power.” So I will gladly boast about my weaknesses. Then Christ’s power can stay in me.
Theology’s great – I have to say that, I’m a preacher! No seriously, it is – but you know, deep down in our hearts as we yearn for love and acceptance, theological answers by and large aren’t what we’re looking for, would you agree?
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind but now I see. It’s a great old hymn isn’t it?!
But think about it: what is it that’s so amazing about grace?
Theologians have lots of answers to that question. But when I was lost, when I was blind, when I was on life’s scrap heap, it wasn’t theological answers that I was looking for.
I remember one night, reading through the Gospel of Mark and for the first time it hit me what grace was all about. It’s about a love that blazes so powerfully in the heart of God that He would send His Son to die, take the punishment that I deserved upon Himself, so that I could go free. It’s about this Jesus whose love blazed so strongly that He sought out the wretches, found the lost, touched the lepers, healed the blind and then came after the likes of thee and me.
On that night, God shattered my stained-glass window stereotype of Jesus. That night, I discovered that this amazing grace was for me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 But the Lord said, “My grace is all you need. Only when you are weak can everything be done completely by my power.” So I will gladly boast about my weaknesses. Then Christ’s power can stay in me.
Whatever you have going on in your life, however much right now you need unconditional love and acceptance, remember this: His grace is all you need.
Amazing. Grace.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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Jatinder Kumar Ahooja
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Thanks Henry .