ENDLESS GRACE UPON GRACE - PART 9

WEDNESDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2024

A profound influence of having a sense of grace is evidentially manifested within and upon me, and no earthly human words can suitably express the utmost gratitude I feel in my heart towards God, whose ceaseless revelatory dominance as a sovereign force is glorious in nature through His surplus grace at work in me.

In other words, my heartfelt gratitude towards God in relation to His abounding grace can only be accurately defined and accessed by "speaking in an unknown tongues" when prompted by instinctively-mannered superiority. Hallelujah...More below!

Reference: John 1:16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

"For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace."

Apart from the special revelation of God's grace in the flesh as Lord and Saviour, we can also abound in GRACE upon GRACE, as long as our souls and spirits are constantly conditioned to receive the permeating influence of Logos as divine light. To that effect, 2nd Peter 1:2 reads, "May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord" (NLT).

One of the most important "throne of grace" realities which God Himself exerted in Christ on behalf of the saints is found in Pauline epistolary expression numbered as Ephesians 2:6-7. And it reads, "And He raised us up together with Him [when we believed], and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, [because we are] in Christ Jesus, [and He did this] so that in the ages to come He might [clearly] show the immeasurable and unsurpassed riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus [by providing for our redemption]" (AMP).

This Scripture, according to the book of Ephesians, tells of the sense of God's merciful and benevolent demonstration in Christ, who, out of a state of spiritual death which He delivered us from, educed the highest good by raising us up together with Christ and positioning us with Him at His right hand when we believed.

What was His reasoned purpose for doing so? So that for all eternity, we will stand as a living testimony to the incredible riches of His grace in His kindness towards us - which He freely gives to us by uniting us with Christ Jesus. Now you can understand God's mind in bringing us to the enjoyment of the privileges we have in Christ Jesus through unsurpassed riches of His grace, when we united with Christ.

Now watch this: Grace is what brings the link of transition by which we pass from time realm to eternal realms of glory. Simply put, the passage from the embodying influence of earthen vessel to our everlasting dwelling is a function of eternized GRACE. To instantiate this verity, 2nd Corinthians 5:1-3 reads,

"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked" - King James Version (KJV 1900).

The earnest practical display which ushers us to "eternality" accessibility of the throne of grace is bound to follow after we drop this earthly body. Indeed, we will have a heavenly dwelling; an eternal body made for us by God Himself and not by human hands; a divinely-designed exchange of clothing suitable for throne-seating capability, as well as "joint-sitting" immortalized experiential or pragmatic union with Christ.

Although we may grow old and weary in our present bodies, we will surely put on our heavenly bodies like newly-tailored clothings of immutable, indestructible or imperishable quality, in standing as a living testimony to the incredible riches of His grace in His kindness towards us. So God Himself, who has fashioned us for this very purpose, has given and empowered us with the Holy Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

Beloved, our redemptive immortality in Christ will be perfected as we come to the end of time realm when we will become spirits wearing heavenly bodies. So in the ages to come, God will show us forth in the brightness of eternal glory, on account of the unsearchable riches and unreserved immensity of His grace. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Acts 20:24; Ephesians 2:5-9; 1 Peter 1:2-3; Hebrews 4:16.

Guided Prayer:

Thank you my heavenly gracious Father for demonstrating the unfathomable riches of your GRACE at the great expense of Christ's atoning sacrifice. My soul, mouth, hands, feet, and every other member of my physical body will remain exceptional instruments of thanksgiving and honour for your unending grace made available to me in Christ, in Jesus' Name, Amen!