This month, we are focusing on \u2018Grace\u2019 and in the previous article, we explored what Grace is, its nature\u2026a free and undeserving Gift from God.\u00a0Today we are going to be talking about who \u00a0receives this wonderful gift from God.<\/p>\n
BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD<\/strong>\u2026 This is a statement we are used to hearing in our social interactions whether from others or ourselves. It has been used so often that the implication of the statement has become watered down. But if we stop and THINK on it again we will clearly see how important the Grace of God is in our lives.<\/p>\n No one is deserving of this gift from God, yet it is available to everybody because of God\u2019s love for us. I believe anyone no matter their race, their religion can receive the Grace of God through faith and if they believe. (Romans 3:22 &23.)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The grace of God has to be received meaning it should be SOUGHT AND ACCEPTED<\/em> and one \u00a0way we do this is to let the Grace of God lead. Let it drive your thoughts and actions. One must become nothing so that the Grace of God may fill them.<\/p>\n Another way is that God\u2019s Grace can be bestowed upon a chosen individual for a particular purpose. Take Saul for example, the man who persecuted believers incessantly, dragging them out of their homes (it was not an easy thing being a believer at that time I can imagine). Yet God put into place a series of events that eventually led to his conversion. (Acts 9:1-20).<\/strong>I will like to note here \u00a0that in the end Saul accepted God and he believed that He was Lord. Thus, \u00a0God was able to use him to fulfill his will of spreading the good news to Israel. God gave Paul his Grace to attain His purpose. Saul heard the voice of Jesus Christ thus God questioned him directly \u201cWhy do you persecute me?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n You might not have an experience as dramatic as Saul (Paul) but God could be speaking to you through your neighbor or your friend or someone you do not know at all or within yourself as your conscience. Listen to him and receive his Grace.\u00a0So, do not say to yourself, oh I am so full of sin and no matter how hard I try I am never able to stop, I cannot ask God for forgiveness a hundred times and keep on sinning there is no hope for me. You are wrong.\u00a0There is hope, and there is hope because there is grace.<\/p>\n \u201cBut where sin increased, God\u2019s grace increased much more\u201d<\/strong> Romans 5:20.\u00a0<\/em>It is through sadness that we appreciate happiness, through loneliness that we appreciate company, through poverty that we appreciate wealth and in this same way it is in sin and those terrible dark times that we will appreciate the warm glow of God\u2019s love and mercy. This is hope for you and me and everyone that God has made. God\u2019s grace is available to us sinners and the more hopeless you think your case is, well my dear reader the more Grace is circling your life waiting for you to put your trust in God, believe and have faith in him, how? Through our lord Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let me conclude with a few words from Billy Graham\u2019s book Peace with GOD<\/em>\u2026 \u2018Faith is simply the channel through which God\u2019s grace to us is received. It is the hand that reaches out and receives the gift of his love<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>\u2019 I will also like to bring out a few things Grace does for us which will be elaborated upon in subsequent articles.<\/p>\nWho can receive God\u2019s grace?<\/strong><\/h5>\n