11/19/11 4:15 a.m.
Grace. Have it for others always. It is a choice. Practice and it will become natural. Practice despite the other person’s behavior or attitude toward you. It is My gift to you and your gift to others. I want My grace to flow through you to others so they will be drawn to Me. Draw others to Me. Draw others to My Kingdom. This is the goal. Do not lose sight of the goal. It is the main reason for your mission. Live grace daily.
The biblical definition of Grace is “undeserved favor”. God not only, by His grace, did everything necessary to give us eternal life, He continuously gives us undeserved favor. He asks us to give the same to others. Daily. So easy in words, so hard in practice, especially when we’ve been hurt deeply. Let’s ask our Sovereign God for the very grace we need to be obedient to His command and then, in His power, let’s move forward in His grace for others.
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. (Titus 2:11-14 NIV)
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV)
for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. (Philippians 2:13 NIV)