But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4-5
God out of His love for humankind sent his one and only son, Jesus Christ, and has given us the salvation of our lives because of His son’s death. It is because of this act of love that we are alive till this very day. If not for the grace that God has shown to the human race, I do not know in what state we all would be in our lives. We would all probably be worse than the previous generation and lost our lives completely. But all that did not happen in our lives because of Jesus the lord and savior of our lives. Why I talk specifically of this grace and mercy and love that God has shown on our lives in this blog is because most of the time this MINDBLOWING act of the God of all creation becomes a FAMILIAR thing in our lives. This amazing event that changed the course of history is many-a-times a common thing in our lives. It is because we have forgotten or to say not really given importance that we live just by the GOOD GRACE OF GOD that we tend to lose our way and end up failing over and over again. Why I can say this so confidently is because the word of God says the exact same thing.
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. Titus 2:11-
It is because the grace of God has been forgotten that we fail to receive the teaching that the grace gives to us about basically not falling into sin and the traps of the devil. If you think that this verse was written many years ago and applicable to our lives then can draw your attention to the word “present age” which means that it is in context to the world we live now or to the world many years after now. We also fail to realize that the ignorance of grace affects all aspects of our lives. You might think ‘why I say this’ well the reason is that God gave us grace with many FREE items along with it. You see the quality of grace is that it never comes alone it comes along with healing, along with deliverance, along with provision, along with happiness, along with all the other blessings you can ever imagine. That is why the word of God says,
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:33
Let me explain what I mean by giving you an example from Mark chapter 2
Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Mark 2:3-5
Here we see that Jesus heals a paralytic man who was brought to Jesus by the man’s friends. Before I tell the next part let me ask you a question. If you are healing someone what will you say? You will say “be healed”. But here we see that Jesus who knows all things saying “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Well, God doesn’t say anything without a reason. So that means if God forgives the sins of a person it can bring healing in that person’s life. What does the forgiving of sins mean? If I have to give a one-word answer it would be “SALVATION”. So that means SALVATION which is given to us by God’s GRACE can bring HEALING. Most of the time we tend to go behind God for healing and all other kinds of blessings. But if we can just count on the GRACE that is given to us then I believe that healing or any blessing will automatically come to us because where there is GRACE there is BLESSING. In essence, the concept of this blog is that grace brought salvation in our lives and salvation brings blessings along with it. so just hold onto his grace and never forget to thank for that and all other things will follow you. it is a matter of your perspective.
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