Amazing Grace
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:9 NIV). We often think that our rewards result from what we do. God does look at our actions and blesses us because of our good doing. But what about the times that we know we mess up and yet are still blessed? This is God’s grace. We don’t deserve it, but He blesses us anyway. Now this doesn’t mean we can just do whatever we want and God’s mercy will take care of us. Fool around with God and He will show you who has the power. But we have to realize that we are not blessed simply because we are a member of every ministry at church or because we talk about Jesus every where we go. Its important to better the kingdom, but if our heart’s not in the right place, we won’t be blessed for that. We must seek God for what He wants us to do to glorify Him and stick to those gifts He has given us rather than creating our own. And we must have a mind for Christ. But grace is just that–grace…we don’t cause it to be, God just gives it. Its His awesome gift to us.
