Grace Alive

Grace Alive

For out of His abundance we have all received one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift heaped upon gift.
John 1:16 Amplified Bible (AMP)

I bear in mind the grace of Christ so as to imitate the same quality in my own life. I do this by extending grace to all, no matter the size of the offense or whether they are deserving. And if I think I am a man after God’s own heart for these things, I am deceiving myself, for this sort of grace is dead.

I believe that a living grace goes after the lowest, and into places no one else will go. If your grace only leads you to point out a place of sin, then your grace is dead. If your grace would call you to go inside a place of sin to bring back your brother or sister, then your grace is merely alive. But if you can bring your brother or sister back from sin and spare them your judgment and criticism, then your grace is thriving like that of Christ himself.

No one gives away something they do not posses. No one extends grace without having received it from On High. Grace is something you cannot have until you know you need it. And maybe we won’t even know we have it until we try to extend it to others, and that is when we are alive in Christ, when grace comes alive.