The gift of grace
Faustino de Jesús Zamora VargasTo all who have discovered it, the same thing has happened. Only the Spirit can reveal it to you. It happens one day and you own it forever. After you meet her, it's hard to leave her. God wants us to understand it in Christ, our Lord and Savior: it is liberating, because it takes you out of aberrated limbo and leads you to understand that we are unable to strictly comply with God's Law; it is saving, because it emanates from the Savior who canceled all our sin debts by dying on the cross and clothed us with faith; it is completer, insofar as we cannot stop depending on it to feel the fullness of Christ and it reflects our imperfections; it is convincing since it makes us see with total clarity that its foundation is the faith that exalts and praises the Lord and not what neither I nor you can by and for Him; it is devastating, because it ruthlessly breaks down the walls of self-sufficiency and pride in man's effort. His administrator is Christ and his name is Grace.
Faith and Grace shake hands. If your faith supports you, Grace sustains you. The Christian life is meaningless without the powerful purpose of Grace. It is the pleasant perfume of God for men. Its aroma is irresistible because it is the origin of salvation and of all favor founded on the sovereignty and lordship of God. Beloved and beloved in Christ, I do not intend to eat your brain with theology that I am sure you already know. The authorship of the mission of the Cross, the origin that ended in the Passion of Christ until his death and resurrection, the coming of the Holy Spirit into the life of the believer, all of them have the unmistakable stamp of Grace and the signature of the finger. of God.
I feel a greater joy when I read that God, 20 centuries ago, told us that he would show us the abundant riches of his grace in his goodness to us in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2: 7). It is not possible to meditate on the undeserved benefits of Grace without falling to your knees in gratitude for the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. Both are co-authors of it, and the glorious tree is the garden where it blossomed so that his Son would manifest it to later plant it, as an unfading flower, in the heart of man who, by faith, receives salvation and the gift of eternal life. God went beyond the limits of kindness that only He could offer us. He saved us by his mercy and, not to be an understatement, he imparted his Grace to us to be complete in his Son Jesus Christ. Understanding the theology of Grace allows us to humble and surrender our hearts to the lordship and sovereignty of God and fold the flags of our presumptions and self-sufficiencies and definitely recognize that He is our life. It is not about what you do, it is His who fills our empty baskets with mercies and His Grace. MERCY is what we do not receive even if we deserve it. GRACE is receiving what we do not deserve. Do you catch the difference?
While the Law perfectly suits the hedonistic desires (those who enjoy the inordinate pleasure of the desires of the flesh) of a perverse generation that has turned its back on God, Grace is the symphony of the fullness of Christ in our lives. lives. In Him we are complete. If you look at the Cross, you will only see Grace, if you take a look at the unrepentant world rebelled against God, you will see the face without camouflage of His mercy. The divine Grace that emanates from saving faith is a regime of life through which God blesses us for only one reason: our union with Jesus Christ, our permanence in Him.
My wish is that both gifts from the Most High be sources of spiritual blessing for your life and for those you love. God bless you!