God’s Grace Abounds
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”
II Corinthians 9:8 NKJV
Grace is an undeserved gift. When we're shown grace, we're given a blessing that we didn't do anything to earn. Displaying grace is a wonderful trait to practice in life, but there is no greater example of it than the grace we have been shown by God through Jesus Christ. In fact, He wants our lives to abound with His grace. But to fully appreciate the depth of His grace, it's helpful to understand just how bad things would be for us without it.
God has given us something much better than we had before. Our natural birth as a descendent of Adam resulted in sin and death being handed down to us. But Christ has come to give us a new birth. In His resurrection, He overcame sin and death. Now, as men and women who have been born again to a living hope through Jesus, we experience a spiritual birth that is greater than our natural birth. We were once overcome by sin and death, but that is no longer the case for all who trust in Christ. As He overcame sin and death, so too does He make us overcomers who share His victory.
God desires that His grace abound in our lives. The Old Testament Law revealed His holiness to us and showed us that we were incapable of meeting God's standard. But in His grace, He lifts us up out of mess we were steeped in.
As God has made His grace abound in your life through Christ, make it a calling card of your life to be excessively generous in your sharing of grace with others. Don't withhold it when it's in your power to give it. It will make a difference in someone's life and will, without a doubt, be used by our Heavenly Father to help give this world a glimpse of the heart of His Son.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen!