Hello everyone,
Today is a continuation from
yesterday where I started explaining how great God’s love and grace really is,
but today explains in detail what this grace of God really is.
In a past write-up of mine I made
reference to Matthew 7:7-11 and Luke 11:9-13, comparing Matthew 7:11 and Luke
11:13. The passage was about when Jesus spoke about the popular ask, seek and
knock, then Matthew 7:9-11 says, “Or
what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a
stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? And then verse
11 says, “If you then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is
in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” the Luke’s account
had a clearer picture of what the good things God gives to those who ask Him,
verse 13 of Luke 11 says, “If you then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” It
was then clear that the Holy Spirit is the good things God is ready to give to
those who ask Him. All these were before the death, burial and resurrection of
Jesus who was the sacrifice that restored us back to God, but before we shout yippee,
know what this grace really is or who it is.
The passage we read made it clear
that it is the Holy Spirit who is the exact Spirit of God/Jesus, but we can’t
gain access to it except through Jesus. Jesus is the grace we have been given
because through Him and in Him we have access to the grace God has given to us
which is having the Holy Spirit dwell in us, in other words God is living in us.
Alright, okay, I’m sure you must be saying things like “I’ve this before I know
the Holy Spirit resides in us the moment we accept Jesus into our lives”, but
have you ever stopped to think again that for God Himself to refer to this as
grace it must be bigger than we think!
Grace again means unmerited, undeserved
favour, meaning there was nothing in our lives that we would have done to merit
this favour God has given us, not our books or even living an excellent moral
life because God said no one is righteous, no one is good, not even one [ref.
Romans 3:9-19], so it was clear that God later calling us the righteousness of
God through Christ according to 2 Corinthians 5:21 had nothing to do with us at
all in any way. The only thing that made us gain access to such great wealth of
grace was just by believing [ref. John 3:16].
Look you have to understand that
there was nothing we could have done that was worth God giving us what He has
offered us today, nothing! The only way was just to believe and we also need to
understand that when you call something a first aid box it means an item that
contains several items in it, the same is also said of the Holy Spirit, it
contains several things even beyond what we can fathom that is Him (Holy
Spirit), this is what we need and have to know or else we would keep underrating
what God has given to us.
May the LORD bless
you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you
and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.
Why not accept Jesus
today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus,
I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God
raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank
You for saving me!” Congratulations,
you’re born again, you are now brand new!
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Unless
otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James
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