THROUGH GRACE
Introduction:
The life of Hagar
thought us the obedience which we should learn from her in the last article. As
a continuation let us grow in God through
the grace in this article. There are so many things to write about grace
but here I want the spiritual and the saved fellow beings to understand the
word Grace through one perspective. I would like to mention it again that I
cannot write everything in this. So I am going to write this article in one
perspective. I am going to pick some people as an example from Old and the New
Testament. I m going to tell about Prophet
Moses and Apostle Paul and Gabriel, Angel of the Lord respectively.
1.
Moses
Moses
is one who has written so many chapters on Lord’s Law and the one who has
guided lakhs of Israelites with 40 years of ministerial experiences and the one
who had walked with God, has seen face to face. See how this Moses sees the
grace of the Lord through his life experience.
In Exodus
33:12-16
“Moses said to the Lord, "You have been telling me,
'Lead these people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me.
You have said, 'I know you by name and you have found favor with me.' If you
are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find
favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people." The Lord
replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send
us up from here. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with
your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your
people from all the other people on the face of the earth?"
Here Moses tells that
If only He goes with them is the Grace. Lets us surf the incident which has
just happened before this. Moses walks with God for 40 days in the mountain
Exodus 32:1-8 Bible tells that
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out
of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto
him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up
out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto
them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of
your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people
brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto
Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving
tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel , which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt
God tells to Moses in
Exodus 19:24 that you and Aaron come up to the mountains. We don’t know if
Aaron too had gone up with Moses. This ( preparation of the calf) could have or
not been happened here God has come down to talk on the mount of Sinai with fire such that the
people is trembled with fear.(Exo 19:18) But here People works against the God
and they spoil themselves because of the late arrival of Moses. The people just
left the way God had prepared for them within a short period of time. God punishes
them for their act in the chapter 32. In the 33rd chapter verses 1-3
God tells that He will not come with them to the promised land of canon rather
he will send His angel. In this situation Moses utters these words and prays to
God that ‘the grace is found and is where you are’. God tells that He will not
go with them but they will reach the Promised Land. Moses raises his prayer to
God that only when you are with us we find grace in your sight.
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Here is a Tamil song
which says that
“Though we are
imperfect You are with us.
You help us walk in the
wilderness
Jesus you are the one
who makes us feel contempt”
Moses
was familiar with the depth of the meaning of these lines long before but what
about us? Let’s think about the present situation we call wealth as grace
because if one is luxurious they tell that everything is by His grace. Here
people lose their stableness. Moses does not tell the land of promise as grace.
He tells that grace is found is where you are. God too expects the same thing
from us through Jesus Christ and that is why He gave His only Son for us. In
Matt 1:23
"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son,
and they will call him Immanuel" which means, "God with us."
How such
this proves that only to be with us God has given His Son
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When we just compare this
song with the verses it gives the nearly same meaning but now days are these
meaningful songs being sung in today’s churches? or the Satan has taken away
these songs with his cunning plan?
If at all God gives money or He blesses us then we call this
as Gods Grace. When are we going to understand this truth?
2. Gabriel (Mary)
We have already seen an example from the Old Testament. We
should not take a single verse for understanding but here In the New Testament
Luke 1:28 the angel Greeted Mary and leaves a message
The angel
went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is
with you."
Here the angel come to Mary
and tell her that she is highly favoured
which in Tamil Bible its written as Graced
One.
The Grace is nothing else but
God being with us. Which the Bible
tells that “The Lord is with you”; because if God is with us then the so called
blessing with come to us and we don’t want to go back of it. The blessing here
we are talking is known to everyone and which is not money, car, house, luxurious
life but Jesus Christ is the Blessing. If God is with us the Red
Sea will dry up, the bitter water will turn up sweeter. Wilderness
will change into an evergreen land. Only few knows this truth if we knew it
then we will not run back off blessings instead we will go back of God.
3. Apostle Paul
Grace is something which transforms an ordinary person to an
extraordinary and weak to a strong
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And makes the one to confess
that I am nothing it was His Grace through which I am. Here Paul says 1
Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was
not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them — yet not I, but the
grace of God that was with me.
Paul is using “I worked harder” in
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The
Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given
thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this
in remembrance of me." In the same way, after supper he took the cup,
saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you
drink it, in remembrance of me." For whenever you eat this bread and drink
this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Paul
writes that though there were many struggles it was Gods grace which was with
me
When I was in Bihar
we did Film ministry. One day it was too late and as I was Bachelors I have to
take food from the hostel mess. But as it was untime there were no food
available but there were some remaining in the guest house we received those
food allotted for the guest. I and another man were taking our dinner. At that
time one sister came and was talking with us. The man who was with me said that,
it was God’s grace through which we got yummy for tummy. I at once thought that
Is this the grace of God? But Paul says Hunger, Thirst, fasting, winter, and
nakedness happened to me but Gods grace was with me. Oh how Justifiable the
truth is? How big the grace is? There are some people who always misuse the
word Gods Grace. Do understand the meaning of Gods grace and receive it so that
you shine greater. May the Lord help you to understand and receive His Grace.
Amen…………
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