Point of Grace

Today in the mess, i talked to a Christian brother... He seemed to be in some kind of fix, saying he cant bring himself to believe God, that everytime it comes to some Christian thing, he just rejects it... saying he rejects God's will so and so on... He worried that he had fought off His will so much he was unacceptable to God anymore... He wasnt sure how far eternal salvation would last... nor to believe God or the devil...

so i told him about grace, about God. About the Christian life being simply one thing... receiving His grace. That receiving involved just opening one's hand. No stretching out, no taking. But simply resting. That some of his misconceptions came as a result of insufficient knowledge of God. About His will, love and grace. That at the point of his salvation, he was as a sheep. And even if he gets lost, Jesus, the gate and shepherd, would rejoice more over finding him than the 99.

I was amazed at the words coming out of my mouth, and with the confidence i spoke with. I found myself speaking life into myself. Everything i had been reading, listening to and even questioning had at that point come out of my mouth as one perfect sense.

If i offered him a 100 bucks for him to receive at any time of his liking in an account in which he had the card and pin. He might reject it the 1st, 2nd, 3rd day, week, month, year. But 20 yrs down the road when 100 bucks lie the difference between freedom and bankruptcy, he would still take and use it. In the same way, God's grace is always there, at any time and place, waiting for us to receive it!

I could even make sense of a sermon of PP's near admission into a mental institution in the past. I refered him to saul, who out of zeal persecuted and murdered the children of God, but when he believed unto Jesus, God saw him a new man - Paul, in Christ. Who God used to move mightily in His kingdom. And surely he could do no worse than Paul had.

He said i was so holy. Yet i remembered Jesus asking why they called him good. Becos only God was good. He was God! And i told him i was not holy, nor good. For if i were to state out my sins daily before him, he would be shocked. But that He has led me to a point of grace. A stage of realisation of what grace is, and just one of many ahead. That what He shown and did with me, He could do the same for him.

Christian life isnt about what we can do or how well we can do things. Not even how moral we are. It has one mission, role and responsibility - to receive from God His grace. Knowing nothing, doing nothing and deserving nothing, we simply believed unto salvation. Suddenly after our salvation, becos of this new nature given to us, we form little laws in our minds about how we mus live our lives. And work ourselves beyond exhaustion to get to a place we could never have reached anyway...

But it is an onward and upward receiving of grace. Stumbling or not, still perfect in His will and plan. Our final destination is still the Promised Land. Becos we believed God, believed Jesus. Everyday i am learning His grace. And how wonderful and beautiful it is! Lord the revelation is amazing. Let it burst forth! I wanna see and reach your point of grace.

Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved), and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.