FOR YOU

By Rick Mathes

2 Corinthians 12:9 (NASB77) ⁹  And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Grace is God’s stooping favor to save, supply, support and overcome. It’s completely undeserved and sufficient for our needs and then some. We receive a full pardon from punishment unconditionally; no strings attached. This is so simple and free most ignore its offers because they can’t imagine that they could be the recipients of so wonderful a gift.

Life itself is entirely in Christ’s will to permit our next heartbeat. The blessing is His when we reflect His image and likeness to others. He died for us and we believers have become His trophies of grace. It’s His peace that makes our life peaceful and a joy to live, work and worship in.

Paul knew what he was talking about when he said he had unspeakable joy and thanksgiving having been forgiven: the chief of sinners. It’s by His grace that I am admitted into ternal living today. The entrance to His glory is through love that only by grace can come from Him. Satan’s toys, his bells and whistles are nothing compared to the incomparable gift of God’s love for us.

This grace is for you Mr. Would Be Christian if only you will believe and be baptized in the person of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. As a young Christian, one recently “born again” it’s going to feel as though you have stepped out onto a foreign shore or different planet. Just remember that to run you first need to crawl then walk. This begins with the baby food of God’s Word and then as you work at Christianity the Word of God grows just ahead of you.

As a tempted of suffering Christian, you will learn that the blood of the Saints causes the Body of Christ to grow and prosper. Tempted in the Spirit and aching from pain in the flesh, you press on anyway. The gates of hell cannot prevail against you.

Soeven as a backslidden Christian or one aged and looking the grim reaper in the face, you know that to live is Christ andto die is gain. How you die demonstrates the grace of God in how you lived.