Good morning, Read: Galatians 5:1-5 GOD’S GRACE IS UNMERITED “You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.” Galatians 5:4 What is the grace of God? Simply put, the grace of God is His unearned, unmerited and undeserved favour toward you simply because of Jesus’ finished work at the cross. The grace of God is God blessing, healing, delivering and prospering you because of Jesus. Because God’s grace is based on Jesus’ work and not yours, the only way you fall from this grace is by believing that you can earn, merit and deserve it through your obedience and good works. For example, you fall from grace when you say, “God has to answer my prayer because I have prayed long enough.” You also fall from grace when you think that because you are serving in church or you have kicked a bad habit, God is pleased with you and He has to bless you. When you think that it is by your efforts and goodness that you receive God’s blessings, you become like the Pharisees. They believed that their law-keeping justified them and ensured that God would bless them. But the truth is that when you believe in your own efforts like them, “you have become estranged from Christ. You who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace”. This means that you are cut off from Christ, who is your salvation, Redeemer, healer and provider. Christ has become of no effect to you! Surely brethren, grace makes Christ’s atonement to be of effect to you. People to whom Christ is of effect receive from Him the grace and miracle they daily need. When Christ is of effect to you, He is your healer and He is your wisdom and you are wise before man. He is your good success and you experience good success in all that you do. For Christ to always be of effect to you and never to nullify the grace of God operating in your life, just remember and believe that it is because of Christ and His finished work — His blood, His stripes, His death, His obedience — that you are justified, healed, prosperous and blessed! Prayer: Lord Jesus, Thank you for your abundant grace to me by which I am saved, ransomed, healed, restored and forgiven. Let me continue depending on your finished work on the Cross from where your flows to me, till I see you face to face, Amen. PEACE ON EARTH!
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 08:26:15 +0000
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