Ephesians 2:8-9 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.
“Grace” is unmerited favour and the love of God towards us. Grace showers us with blessings that we are not worthy to receive and blesses those around us with His incredible favour. Grace of God makes us eligible to become partakers of God’s goodness and qualifies us to be called the sons and daughters of Christ Jesus.
The quintessential incident in Genesis 21 describes the grace of God and His incredible favour on humanity. Sarah had a bright idea to use Hagar, her Egyptian slave girl as a surrogate mother to bear a child for her. Later, when God blessed Sarah with Isaac in her old age, Sarah did not want the son of the slave girl, Ishmael to share the inheritance with her son. Hence, Hagar and her son, Ishmael, were driven out of the family of Abraham. Hagar must have thought that she would eventually replace her mistress but was chased out of the clan with some food and a skin of water into the desert. When the water ran out and her son was dying of dehydration, she placed him under a bush and turned away, sobbing in distress, unable to bear the horrible sight of her dying child. But God heard the boy crying (Genesis 21:17a). The grace of God found the wandering hopeless woman and her dying child in the middle of nowhere.
God’s grace can find us wherever we are. His grace will reach us when we are broken, misused and abandoned.
God’s Grace finds and forms and fine-tunes us:
- Find: There was no Wi-Fi signal in the desert for Hagar to reach anyone. Yet, the telecom of heaven, an angel, reached the despondent mother and gave the son a new life.
- Form: God’s grace shapes, forms and fashions our future. He will never forsake us.
- Fine-Tune: God’s grace accepts us even when we’ve failed and fallen into our own silly mess. His grace is sufficient for us to fine-tune our dead dreams into destiny.
“God’s grace finds, forms and fine-tunes us”.
Prayer: God of Grace, thank you for accepting me when the world rejected me. Amen
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