His Loving Grace.

There is an umbrella of grace that spreads over all creation showing us that God is always at work.  If allowed by us, every difficult situation that we are in, God can and will turn it around for his glory.

Jesus said in Matthew 11:28; “Come to me, all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” 

It is often difficult for people to believe that if they come near to God, they will NOT find themselves drowning in condemnation, but instead they will find that they are swimming in an ocean of compassion.  Jesus called out to all who were weary and who found their hearts exhausted to come to him and find rest.  He is telling us that God will be for us our “bed” where we can find rest.  Many have persuaded themselves to believe that the one who is “Love” could not and would not embrace them.  Though we deserve God the least, He is the one that we need the most and without him we have no life… but what's strange is even though we constantly turn our faces from him, out of everything that exists he passionately desires us the most. So then if God is love, those who know God best would love people the most.  We must learn to grasp love and throw away condemnation for even God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to bring the world life.

For Love is Grace, and Grace is love undeserved.  Love uplifts the lowly with understanding and invokes only thankfulness, and it gives to those who deem themselves unworthy of it. Grace is patient and kind, for the love it gives is without condition. It fills all those who are poor in spirit, that they shall lack nothing more.

I believe it was Ravi Zacharias who once said; “Love is a commitment which will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, and your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.” 

When we come to Christ and allow him to weave within us his love we find rest in Him and eagerly begin to bask in his presence while pouring upon him our burdens. When we truly learn to live in a commitment to Christ's love we realize that the choices that we make don’t just affect us and our generation but that of the future generations to come.  Our faith is not just about us… our journey with Christ is not just about us.  Our life here on earth is not just about us.  It affects all those around us and the future generations.  Every decision we make, every action we take will cause an effect on the people around us. We must be careful on how we live the very breaths of life, for if we do not, we might just find ourselves with everything this world has to offer and later find we have lost ourselves in the disorder. Unless we understand the Cross, we cannot understand why our commitment to what is right must be precedence over what we prefer.  What we believe in our hearts must make sense in our mind.

Animosity is the foe of love because it makes a person unforgiving and unwilling to give love unconditionally.  It is the adversary of hope because it makes people incapable of seeing a better future.  It is the rival of faith because it makes you stop trusting in anyone but yourself.  I believe that many of us have become blinded by a foul bitterness and if we are not careful we will lose the ability to see such things as love, grace, truth or even affection.  More importantly you may close your eyes to what your heart needs you to see most.  “When love does not come to you, it breaks your heart, but when you do not give love away, it hardens your heart.  One thing vaster than our need to be loved is our need to love.  We are designed to love.  From the very beginning you were made for love.  We are the object of God’s love.”  Erwin McManus

And as we give way for God to encounter our lives he sends his promise, His holy spirit to teach and guide us into his heart.  And we learn that the ways of the Spirit are always more sensuous than the ways of the flesh because it ravishes, intoxicates and exhilarates the invisible and inner person to an unimaginable depth beyond our possible dreams. God's Holy Spirit satiates us with peace and pleases us emotionally, physically and psychologically. He satisfies all our feelings and affections within our heart and soul. The Spirit's power is the real, exciting, mystical kingdom. It is a rich, luxurious palace overflowing with thrilling and ecstatic serenity and pleasures engulfing our soul with consuming delights. It bestows amazing endowments, joy, peace which God's gladly shares.

Worship is mans answer to God’s grace.  And when men come to worship at the throne of grace, when they accept to dwell in the love and grace of the Father, they get an over consuming fill of Jesus who is the full representation of God.  Jesus is the final and the full source of life. Let us Marinate and revel in His grace and presence... For His love and grace is the only hope for each of us.