Has your day already been blessed with grace?

Has your day already been blessed with grace?

Hebrews 4:16 NIV

Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Has your day already been blessed with grace? At what point in the day do you usually encounter God’s grace? At what point in the day do you run out of God’s grace?

This thing we call grace is an incredible thing, isn’t it? How can you adequately describe it or explain its impact upon your life? The song says, “He giveth and giveth and giveth again.” Another song says, “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound…” and then goes on to explain how grace convicts us, saves us, keeps us, sustains us, comforts us, transforms us, and eventually delivers us. Yes, “the Lord has been so good to me!” A few years ago I thought of writing a book titled, “All of grace is my story.” (The book, not yet begun, would be an exegesis of every New Testament passage containing the grace concept.) I suppose all of us could write memoirs with that title.

A certified public accountant decided to open a journal with God. He wanted to write everything that God gave him and everything that he gave back to God. He started keeping a debit and credit book with God.

If someone did him a favor, he put it down as God’s gift to him. He credited God with the sun, his food, his health, his friends and relatives, and a thousand other benefits he received.

On the other hand, he put down what he did for God. Finally, he gave up! He said, “It is impossible for me to balance the books. I find that God is indeed my creditor and what I have done for Him is next to nothing.”

‘Nuff said!

Tom Swartzwelder was born again at the age of nine in an old-fashioned revival meeting. Tom received his B.A. from Tennessee Temple University and his M. Div from Luther Rice Seminary. He has pastored for nearly forty years in both bi-vocational and full-time roles. He provides practical how-to-do-ministry resources for the disciples of Jesus Christ at http://www.godsgreenhouse.net. Tom’s latest book is “God Speaks–Today!”