| Grace, God's Grace! |
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| Written by Khimani A. Williams | ||||||
| Sunday, 06 September 2009 | ||||||
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How
many times have you been on the edge, so close to your breaking point
that you almost caved in? How many times have you held on to the last
thread, but it didn’t break and send you crashing? How many times have
your midnight appeared ever-present, only to be surprised by the break
of dawn? How many times have you said, “This is it!” but you still
stand believing?
Sometimes circumstances plant us between a rock and a hard place, and we are left to ask, “How did I get here?” Life doesn’t always play out the way we plan it. It is full of surprises, some fantastic, some shocking. Passion and pleasure is usually what we look forward to, but pain we never desire to be acquainted, or worse yet, intimate with. But through pain or pleasure God is still God. In a world hostile towards its Maker, Believers have often been challenged to live out their faith: That God is deserving of worship in all situation. The Heroes of Faith, like Christians today, were forced to choose between God’s love and the world’s. Hebrews 11:35 – 37 gave a few of the challenges they overcame, choosing to suffer rather than to compromise their faith and life: “…others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection… others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment… they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented.” They held on to the last thread, falling to their knees when their backs were against the wall. When there was nothing more that they could do they trusted in God. And it is in the moment of weakness, when there is nothing that they could do to remedy the situation, that God’s strength is made known in a personal way. The Apostle Paul is testament to the grace of God in our times of weakness. “And He said unto me, ‘My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.’” [II Corinthians 12: 9 – 10]. He found strength in God’s grace in times of weakness. He was able do the unlikely in the most unlikely of times. God’s grace always proved to be just enough no matter the circumstance. God’s grace is sufficient to keep you from going overboard. It is more than enough to hold your last thread together. God is gracious to give you hope and the ability to trust in Him through the darkest time of your life. He has promised, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee!” [Hebrews 13: 5]. Your helpless situation cannot bankrupt the bounty of God’s grace, so all you have to do is keep on believing in spit of.
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