Grace means unmerited favor. Depending on the context of scripture, of course, but in today’s reflection as I tried to embrace His grace, it was impossible for me to wrap my mind around the idea of grace. Not just grace, but His grace.
When I thought about His grace, it took me to the moment I cried out to God for my salvation and was filled with the Holy Spirit. Grace was the veil being removed from my eyes, allowing me to see sin for what it was. His grace was the awareness that God gave me that confirmed I was, in fact, a sinner needing to be saved. It was the understanding that I had lived my whole life contrary to the life God had for me. And even though I had rebelled and was an enemy of His, grace was the mercy waiting for me on the other side of repentance.
It’s impossible to embrace grace because to embrace is to admit that I don’t fully understand how undeserving I am of it. Which I can say confidentially I am aware.
Because to me, His grace is like attending your funeral, but someone else died instead.
It’s the crowd choosing the innocent man to be crucified over you, the murderer.
It’s being used by God despite persecuting & murdering His people, like Paul. It was not allowing Paul to remain in the lie that he was doing the will of God, when he wasn’t.
It’s the strength found in our weakness; the strength given to us so we can fight against the very sin and strongholds that make us weak. The same sin and desires we conjure from within.
It’s the ability to break the law your whole life only to be acquitted right before the jury convicts you.
It’s the pardon after hearing all the evidence against you.
It’s the ability to stand back up after being knocked down, defiled by your own choices.
His grace is like seeing the promised land, even though you believed it was easier being enslaved.
It’s receiving His inheritance despite squandering it. It’s being able to receive salvation despite deserving death. It’s a gift only given by God (Ephesians 2:8-9). Given as He chooses.
And for me, His grace is an everyday reminder to be grateful that God didn’t leave me how He found me, but instead, called me out of darkness. Not because I have unmerited favor, but because all of humanity does. Whether we embrace it or not.
So today as I reflect on His grace, I pray I never forget that His grace has nothing to do with us, and everything to do with who He is.
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