Monday July 19, 2021

My grace is enough for you !

2 Corinthians 12.9 - And he said to me : "My grace is sufficient for you...".

Have you ever received a response like this from God ? Yet there is such a force in these four words. This truth is powerful enough to help us through all the valleys of tears in life, where we doubt God's love for us, when everything goes awry and heaven seems closed to our pleas.

When he received this response, Paul was in pain and desperately seeking help from his God. The Lord reminds him that he has His favor, that nothing will be able to separate him from this grace which he announces to others. A reminder also of where Paul was taken : a religious extremist breathing threat and murder, blinded by uncontrollable hatred, persecuting the One He wanted to please, a terrorist in today's parlance ! A reminder of his forgiveness and all the blessings that have come from it. Humanly speaking, what could such a man hope for from God if He was not Love ?

“My grace is sufficient for you. Nothing should be added to it. If you probe it, scrutinize it, study it, review it again and again in your heart, you will see that with it I have given you everything". If it is sufficient for Paul, it is also for us. The favor that God shows us is more than enough to keep us on our feet, but perhaps we have not "fed" enough on this grace. Maybe we have "forgotten" to make it the subject of our daily meditation !

There is a why to this response from God : "For My power is fulfilled in weakness." My beloved, when we feel weak and helpless, this is where we will experience all the power of God ! It's not when we feel up to it, when we lean on our own strength, when we take matters into our own hands, that we will experience this power, but it is only when we are completely emptied of ourselves- same, a "little nothing" so dependent on his heavenly Daddy.

Faced with all the challenges that await us today, let us go over these four words in our hearts : “My grace is sufficient for you !".

Good reflection.

Source (Ezekiel 37 Ministries)