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Grace Be With You Jul 09 2010
"The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you." - 1 Corinthians 16:33
Paul normally closed his letters by saying, "Grace be with you." Now it's interesting that Paul used that particular phrase because he had been a most unlikely candidate for accepting the grace of God. Paul spent his "first" career terrorizing first century Christians. He literally persecuted the church and killed Christians. That was his mission. But Christ appeared to him, saved him, and forgave him. And Paul, perhaps more than anyone who has ever lived, was focused on the grace of Christ because he knows he didn't deserve to be chosen to be a child of God. And you know what? None of us do! None of us deserve to have the God of the universe go to a cross and pay that awful penalty for us, so that we might be forgiven and have eternal life.
Paul's salutation reminds us that a thriving church will focus on the grace of God that's found in what Jesus did for us on the cross. A healthy church will emphasize the grace of God, remembering the price Jesus paid in giving us something no one deserves—forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life.
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Yes, report it NevermindAmazing grace! This devotion caused me to bow my head and say to God, "Amazing, You saved me."
Is it a coincidence that one of the words I have to type in the security section before sending this comment is the word, "retched"? What a difference grace makes!
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Yes, report it NevermindGrace, grace, it's all grace. As the last sentence points out, it a gift. We don't deserve it and we can't earn it. Where many Christians, including myself for a time, make a mistake is thinking that they somehow deserve it or are earning it AFTER they are saved. What an arrogant error we make. Outside of the sustaining grace of our Lord Jesus through the work of the Spirit, we never deserve the grace we grace we receive. It remains a gift paid for in full by the only one who could bestow it. Therefore, profound thanks and humility are the only proper response. Add to that a sincere attempt to live according to Jesus' teaching and example as best we can.