GRACE

Grace!  5 letters bound together to represent the most amazing gift of Love from God above!  A 5 letter word that would change mankind for all time sake!  "For it is by Grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."(Eph 2:8-10). Such Grace....Beyond amazing, beyond wonderful, beyond our wildest imagination....Grace!  Such Amazing Grace, that the Creator of this world and all herein would create mankind, and knowing we could never be righteous in our own works; devised a plan of salvation through His One and Only Beloved Son; to be born of woman and walk the very earth they created as a human, to be scorned and despised by their own creations, knowing He would be ridiculed, persecuted, and suffer torture beyond measure by their creations' own hands, and yet, willingly, give the ultimate sacrifice of His life on the cross, that man could be made the righteousness of God, in Christ Jesus!  "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace."(Eph 1:17)  What a mighty God we serve!!!  

In Genesis 1 we see details of creation and how at the close of each day, God saw what He had made and said it was good. All creation He had made, even man in their own image, was 'good'- but not 'righteous', and for man to walk and talk with God, and engage in meaningful conversation and everlasting joy with God, required righteousness! When Adam and Eve broke the law God had given them, it broke the chain of righteousness between man and God, and sin began. "For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!" (Rom 5:17),  "For the law was given through Moses; Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ."(Jn 1:17). So God, in all His Love and Compassion for His creation, man, continues to extend GRACE--So full and free!  And because of His grace, we now can come boldly before His throne, and in I Jn 1:9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."  GRACE....All through God's grace!!!   As you go about today, think on this 5 letter word, Grace, and be blessed, dear friends. God loves you and so do I~~~