Grace for All

This morning I would like to write to you all about grace.  What it is and what it can do for us.

When I googled this word I came up with a lot of information.

Not the least of which was another word that, now that I think about this, I should have realized it would come up as well.  That word is unmerited.  Now I think that most of us know what this word means, but just incase you may be reading this to your children, unmerited means - we do not deserve it.  And IT can be anything.  You are doing what your Mother asks you to do and you get to looking at something that you are supposed to be cleaning up, and your cleaning up comes to a stand-still.  Your Mother calls you to the kitchen and asks you if you would like to try a cookie that she just put on the cooling rack after taking the cookies from the oven.  Of course you want a cookie, fresh cookies are the best!  “Here you go!” says Mother.  You enjoy your cookie and a little chit-chat with Mother and then head back to your room to finish your straightening up of your room.

Okay, Mother didn’t ask how your cleaning was coming; she didn’t know that you had gotten side tracked.  She simply called you to the kitchen and asked you if you would like a fresh, warm cookie.  Mother didn’t know that you had allowed yourself to get side-tracked; she just gave you a cookie. 

This cookie was unmerited. And Mother was giving you grace along with the cookie.

Another part of the definition states that this undeserved help is for us for regeneration.   Now we know that this word means to grow back.  Like you had your little finger cut off in an accident.  It heals but you go to bed one night and wake up the next morning and your little finger has re-grown and you now have five fingers again, how awesome is that?  That is an example of regeneration. 

When we speak of grace and regeneration, I would like you to consider a little seed.  I have lots of seeds because I like to grow things.  Now I want you to consider that the name of this particular seed is grace.  And I am going to plant this seed.  I think you could safely say that God gives each of us this little seed of grace and this little seed is going to need to be watered, this is the regeneration and it will need to be feed, which is the sanctified life, in other words we are going to live the way that God wants us to live.  We are going to regenerate our grace and we are going to be sanctified by being what Christ wants us to be. We are not going to steal, in any way, we are not going to lie, and we are not going to kill (as in being murderers).  

We are going to be little Jesus’ after all we are told to model ourselves after Jesus aren’t we?

Well I know that I have really simplified this amazing word, but in doing so I am hoping that there will be some out there that have their light bulbs going on all around the world as they come to realize that grace isn’t complicated.  God has made us with the ability to understand.  And this little exercise has helped me to have a better understanding of what grace is, and what it means to live a sanctified life.

Okay…time to find some one to bless…who will it be today?