Jesus embodies all of the grace God has for you and me. John the Beloved says within the Gospel of John, “Jesus represents the fullness of the Father’s grace and fact” (John 1:14).
Jesus will not be solely a truth-teller however a grace-giver. Most of us wrestle to offer grace and inform others the reality concurrently, however not Jesus. He’s most identified for the phrase, “I let you know the reality…” and He’s most seen as one who offers grace.
Each relationship that encountered Jesus was given equal alternative to expertise grace and settle for the reality. Nevertheless, many then, simply as right now, select to waste the grace and ignore the reality.
Proverbs 19:3 says, “Individuals smash their lives by their very own foolishness after which are indignant on the Lord.”
That is a convicting verse. How usually have you ever and I ignored the reality of God, wasted the grace of God, and blamed God for the end result of a state of affairs or circumstances that have been provoked or triggered by our poor decisions? And but, God continues to be a God of grace.
None of us will arrive on the closing vacation spot of our lives having lived an ideal life within the eyes of God. All of us fall wanting the glory of God.
The Gospel of John tells us in John 1:14 that Jesus is the One who is stuffed with God’s grace and fact. All of us are stuffed with one thing, Jesus is stuffed with grace and fact. He has sufficient grace to beat your sins and sufficient fact to free you from any deception you could have chosen to imagine about your life.
All of us have a sin that does so simply beset us, possibly multiple, however the Gospel of John needs us to know that no matter what we’re stuffed with, God’s grace and fact in Jesus is fuller nonetheless. God needs us to expertise His grace and His fact for a lifetime.
I’ve been a follower of Jesus Christ now for nearly 45 years and typically I ponder if Jesus will get bored with me and my struggles with sin. I’ve obtained Jesus because the grace for my sin. I imagine Jesus is the reality to free me from the bonds of sin on this life, however the practicality of my life would usually say in any other case. My decisions look extra like Proverbs 19:3 typically and fewer like Romans 8. At the same time as a pastor, simply hours after telling everybody else what God’s Phrase says about dwelling for Him, I discover myself falling proper again into the acquainted battles, false beliefs, and discouragement of my very own life, circumstances, and relationships.
The place is one to show as this Romans 7 battle rages in my coronary heart and the practicality of my day-to-day religion stroll with Jesus? Possibly you’ll be able to relate.
As a pastor, I watch so many quit on their stroll with the Lord as a result of they grow to be discouraged by the battle that rages and the victories that appear to stay elusive of their personal on a regular basis lives. The place is one to show in these moments of discouragement? The place is one to show while you surprise if God is rolling His eyes at you and saying to Himself about you, “Not you once more!”
The Gospel of John offers us some hope within the trenches of our discouragement with private sin. John 1:16 says, “For from his fullness we now have all obtained grace upon grace.” The verse is referring to Jesus, the sunshine of the world, the Phrase of God made flesh. From Jesus’ fullness we now have all obtained grace upon grace. The fullness John is referring to right here is the fullness of grace and fact talked about in John 1:14. God’s grace is bigger than your sin and God’s fact is extra highly effective than the misleading lies Devil tells each certainly one of us.
There’s hope to be discovered on this for our every day battle with sin. However what does it imply to obtain grace upon grace? The Greek assemble of this phrase (χάριν ἀντὶ χάριτος) may be translated “grace upon grace” however nowhere else within the New Testomony does this phrase happen. It’s identified in Greek as a hapax legomenon, which merely means, it would not happen anyplace else.
One in every of my favorite issues to do is go to the seaside, plop down in my chair and skim an excellent ebook whereas I hearken to the waves. Wave after wave after wave crashes into the seaside just some toes away, and the rhythm of this sound over time brings unimaginable peace, hope, and pleasure to my soul.
That is what John was referring to in John 1:16. God’s grace with fact simply retains crashing the seaside of our lives. He has grace after grace after grace. Like these waves on the seaside shore, his grace by no means stops. Matter of reality, the author of Lamentations 3:22 says, “The steadfast love of the Lord by no means ceases; his mercies by no means come to an finish; they’re new each morning; nice is your faithfulness.”
Every day, every morning is mercy after mercy. The waves of grace are endless and limitless!
That is the idea in John 1:16. It’s like waves on the ocean. One unimaginable wave of God’s mercy and charm comes upon you and earlier than you’ll be able to course of that, right here comes one other lovely wave of God’s goodness and mercy into your life.
After 45 years of strolling with Jesus in religion in Him, I’m studying to relaxation within the sound of the waves of God’s grace and settle for the reality that washes over me to forgive me of my sin. I hope you discover a chair on the seaside of your life too and be taught to benefit from the sound of God’s waves of grace and the hope that comes from them, as a result of similar to the waves on a seaside, His grace simply retains coming, grace after grace!
