Liberating Power of Grace

As the Lord continues to teach me and allow me to grasp little bits and pieces of his grace, this is a new one...

"The Liberating Power of Grace"

This has been blowing me away in the last few days. The reason i am excited about that is because i've been hearing the word grace my entire life and it has never taken on any meaning other than it's available for me when i sin. A very immature understanding of his grace. And even then i don't understand that much of his grace. It's like my whole life grace has gone in one ear and out the other...but something different has happened in my heart lately. It's by his grace only, that i can experience and learn about his grace. You know? It's like we are soo feeble and small and yet he allows us to get in on everything. Breathing being the first thing.

So with all this said, looking at his grace from the other angle appears different aspects of his grace. This particular aspect brings about Liberation. Freedom. Power. Authority.

The power of his grace knocked the most ruthless persecutor of christians, Saul=Paul, to his knees and in being blinded by this powerful emergence of God's grace, he was given life, not because he did anything to earn it. If anything, he deserved to be struck down dead just like the people who tried to carry the ark of the covenant. Or like Ananias and Sapphira in Acts ch. 4. They were struck completley dead.

That's what he really deserved. Instead he got life. He didnt walk away from that moment the same. He got a new name. Received life...eternal life that started when he got up from the dirt. He walked impacted and changed because of this liberating and powerful grace. Then the freeing power of grace poured itself right through Paul and into soo many different bodies of people. The freeing power of grace is still at work today in His church, as Church is changing and morphing into what Paul layed out as the New Testament church. How amazing is that. Grace knows no limits and sees all people through the same lens.

So i read all throughout his letters and his words of grace. The same for Peter. And yet, i have to ask myself do we truly walk and live as if we have been changed and impacted by that liberating grace that knows us as we are.

But, in just a few moments on a cross, jesus. That's all i have to say. Our minds can chase all the truths that come from that one thought of liberating grace. Jesus on the cross.

The heart of God and Jesus was to free the captives.

"It is for freedom that christ has set us free!" Liberation to an undeserving people. Power rests on us because thats what Grace does when we embrace it fully, even if we dont know what it means to embrace his grace fully.

If we choose Him, we are free. Nothing can change that. I pray that the power of his grace on our lives individually and collectively would mature itself in us even more, just as it is doing.

Praise God for the glorious grace!

Liberated,
::johnchristian