This Is How Grace Works

Happy weekend everyone,

Grace is what everyone wants to see in everything they do, but how do we know when grace appears in our lives? Many feel grace is seeing more returns than the regular from our regular work, such as more money more than the worth of what we did, but that isn’t exactly how grace works in our lives. So, how does grace work?

Going straight to the point of what grace is, is to understand the origin of grace itself. Grace came about when Jesus Christ was raised from the grave. To be honest, grace has nothing to do with your effort at all, in other words, it isn’t the extraordinary return based on our work, rather it is living another person’s life, and what do I mean by that?

God created man to live a perfect life, in other words, having His life; Adam would have achieved this if He ate from the tree of life and not the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so as we know he ate from the wrong tree which made him completely imperfect because he was separated from God.

God had laws given to man which man couldn’t keep because he was imperfect. The law wasn’t given to making us perfect but was given to us to show us that we need a saviour. Jesus was the only man who kept the law and every other God put on the table, in other words, Jesus was the only perfect human, and as such was one with the Father [God]. No other man could meet up to God’s standard as Jesus did.

Jesus was given all authority in heaven and earth, in a layman language, every goodie beyond your wildest dreams was given to Jesus. Now, what do all these have to do with grace?

John 3:16 says who so ever believes in Jesus would not perish but have everlasting life; Ephesians 2:9 says that we are saved not by works but by grace so that no one would boast. What does that mean?

The moment we received Jesus as Lord, we die and receive the new life of Christ. Now, because we have the new life of Christ, everything Christ got because of His perfect life was given to us on a platter, the only way we can see this work in our lives is just by believing it [that we have everything Jesus got], it is that simple! Remember we don’t have a “life” again, because our life now is the life of Christ, but it doesn’t end there.

I said those who are born of God have received the perfect life of Christ on a platter, all we need to do is to confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved (ref. Romans 10:9). Now, with all these, how is it applied?

As Christ has saved us from our sin, the joy is so much that you would want to tell everyone around you the good news. Those who heard this news and became born of God received the Holy Spirit in them, it is the Holy Spirit in them that directs those born of the Spirit how to spread this good news, and it comes in different forms as the Holy Spirit directs you. As the Holy Spirit guides your every move, your faith grows more and more as your understanding about what Christ has done get clearer by the day, thereby making you believe all the more as doubt, fear, unbelief reduces more and more, thereby allowing the grace to flow.

Now, as you live more and more in Christ, you unlock more blessings of grace upon your life, the truth is that all you just want to do is just spread the good news is whatever way the Holy Spirit has called you, be it in business, entertainment, health and so on, and of cause you go about doing good. This is why a person could get a brand new car because it is needed for him to propagate the gospel. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 that we should seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness, and all other things shall be added. The other things have a reason for its appearance, and it is because of the kingdom work.

All these things do not happen based on our physical work, they come as the need appears, this is where we see what Jesus earned come to play just like that. This is the gospel truth.

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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