One of the most popular misconceptions about grace is that it needs something added to it. Honestly that couldn't be further from the truth. There's a passage in scripture that says My grace is sufficient for you. There's another that indicates saved by grace, through faith in Christ, and this not by works so that no one can boast.
I believe these two passages really cut through the garbage in our thinking. They get right down to the fact that grace is all about what God already did for us. They tell us that God is big enough, strong enough, present enough, forgiving enough to forgive our sins and restore us to a right relationship with himself.
It blows my mind how many people are in the world who say they have to add to God's grace. Or better yet that they've done too many wrong things that they can't be forgiven, as if they could take away from how amazing God's grace is.
Here's the truth of the matter - you can't make God love you any more than he already does. And the reverse is true - you can't mak God love you any less than he already does. That's what grace is about -getting the undeserved love and goodness of God.
Today I encourage you to bask in the grace of God. See everything around you as God setting you up for something great. It's truly amazing how God can take something that looks terrible and frightening and turn it into something amazing, wonderful, and full of blessing.
Lord, open our eyes that we might see you today! Amen.
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