Monday, December 10, 2012

The unmerited love of God is called Grace

It simply means we don’t have anything attractive within us to be loved by God, it means we cannot earn love and His mercy; it means we don’t have intrinsic capacities to be loved by God. He chose to love us by His own volition& will. This divine love is called “Grace”. It’s profound and it must change the very depth of who we are as human beings. The grace of God is so powerful that can renew the mind and regenerate our selfish heart.
I am talking about the substantive aspect of God’s grace.I am not interested in the stylistic presentation of grace by nonchalantly saying, we are saved by God’s grace alone; therefore, we can do whatever our fleshes crave for because God loves us. That is not God’s grace! That is merely an infatuation with the concept of grace; having that kind of superficial attitudes perverts the very divine nobility of God’s grace.
Grace is when God decides to provide you and I with His mercy and love in order to see the work of His son on the cross; so we can become transformed by it and transmit that love and grace to others around us.
When God gives us His grace, we must become sanctified that is to say we are not going to associate with the temporal and lustful things of this world. It is, however, going to be a challenge for us to separate ourselves, but we have the spiritual weapons to abort those worldly thoughts that may perversely entertain our minds.

God’s grace is sufficient for us through whom we will come to know our Lord and have a relationship with Him, through whom we see the redeeming work of Christ. Christ is the very essence of God’s grace meaning Christ is the grace Himself and He wants to clothe us through it. There is nothing we can do to earn it, it’s completely unmerited and that is the divine mystery of His volition and will. We will know when we have God’s grace in our lives; because it changes us and it produces abundant fruits.
God’s Grace in our life equals to love, mercy, forgiveness, tolerance, patience, understanding, respect, and compassion. Our lack of enthusiasm to manifest these qualities in our daily life is the paramount evidence that we severely need God’s grace.
Hence, I urge you to come to Him in humility so He can grant you His riches grace that is so pure and life transforming.
Barukzoy

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