Grace in Your Face that Leads You to the Cross
Do you have a grasp on the vastness of grace that God has given you? Actually, he hasn’t just given you, he has poured it out in vast amounts. Amounts that we can’t even comprehend. God certainly is Love and this is delightfully demonstrated through his salvation plan, but sometimes as those who have chosen to follow Jesus we fail to see that even taking it for granted. It’s like passively receiving a surprise double portion ice cream sunday. God’s grace is constantly in our face but we can gaze right on through it. Man, what a loss!
Realisation of God’s grace motivates you say “Is this your usual way of dealing with man, O Sovereign Lord?” 2 Samuel 7:19 This is King David’s reaction after receiving the knowledge of God’s plans for him and his descendant. The grace of God is mind blowing!
Jesus hadn’t died in David’s time but he was still giving him phat praise. We actually have a bigger reason than David to be overwhelmed by grace. I mean we are able to have a relationship with Jesus THE promised descendant. We have a fuller taste of the promise to David, and yet an even bigger one to come when the Kingdom of God comes in even greater fullness!
I love it when an event of grace has later repercussions, like this story about my mum. She was near death when she was a teen, the doctors didn’t know what was wrong, it was a medical anomaly. However miraculously she was healed overnight and whether the doctors wanted to know or not they were witness to a miracle of God’s loving grace in her life.
I always value this story. It’s proof to me that God reaches out in a personal way. Jesus didn’t just stop at the cross in wanting us to know Him. Being in hospital isn’t great but God was at work and the grace shown there is grace poured out even further on to me as I would not be alive if she had died then. This was grace shown to me before I was born, even before I had made a decision to accept Christ to become reborn!
Looking back at the way he has revealed his love for me in the past I look forward to seeing what he will do in the future. We unwittingly become vehicles of God’s unfolding grace and then look back at what He has done and marvel but we can also choose to actively acknowledge what Jesus achieved by dying on the cross. The event propels us into worship because it is the ultimate act of grace that will ever exist. We have every reason to worship just as David did but with even more reason as we now know that Jesus is the King promised in 2 Samuel 7:12-13.
I challenge you to receive and grasp hold of the wonders of God’s grace as it will catapult you to grow in God and to share your faith. Rejoicing is so good for us and we are exhorted to do it twice in Philipians 4:4! Why not let grace be in your face and lead you to the cross?
