ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMGREATALENTIA
GOD’S GRACE
It is already one year anniversary of my Blog and I have decided to move away from presenting academic cum political issues and look into the Grace of God because God’s grace has been so far the source of my success. It is like a fountain that flows from its richness to water the dry land, It is like the rising sun that gives rise to hope, it is the ever abundant kindness of God that has no equal. Grace is the out pouring of God’s ever faithfulness on the frail and Sinner, rich and poor alike.
We become by God’s grace and we are only by that grace made manifest in our daily lives.
When we speak of God's grace, we mean all the good gifts we enjoy freely in life. There are so many. We could spend a lifetime celebrating them: friends, Parents, Children, the sun, moon, trees, the birds that sing, the air that we breath, the wonders of God’s creation, the ingenuity embedded in man to recreate. Of course we cannot continue ad in finitum for even typing these words right here in my P.C is for the grace of God, visible even out of merit.
A more summary approach is to affirm that life itself is the fundamental gift, with all its delights. For us, the gift of life includes the wondrous gift of being human, finding ourselves plopped down in the midst of the larger gift of creation. That is the bedrock of grace—creation, life, human being. As humans, we are given a unique place in the created order. The creation stories in Genesis are ways of celebrating this original grace. In the stories, God pronounces all creation, including humankind, very good, that is, full of grace.
The amazing Grace of God
As in the beloved old hymn, the amazing kind of grace is God's gift of redemption, the grace which prompts us to repent, causing us to think again when we find ourselves in a bad way, and which prompts us to return, putting us back on a more godly path.
This turning and returning we call conversion. As another simple hymn says, conversion is turning, turning, till we come round right. When we forget grace and our need of it, amazing grace prompts our memory and then upholds our will, our intention to right our lives, to make amends. The process of continual conversion is the grace most associated with the Holy Spirit. It is also called sanctifying grace. The action of this kind of grace is summarized as repentance, confession, and amendment of life. We rely on grace to make us whole, personally and communally, over time.
God’s Redemptive Grace
Redemptive grace is focused most clearly in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, whom Christians call Christ, meaning the one chosen to deliver this particular grace. We might refer to Jesus as Grace himself, as Grace in the flesh, as Grace walking around. The grace of Christ can inspire us in such a transformative way as to change our awareness of ourselves, of our potential as human beings and as humankind, and our awareness of God's gracious purpose for us and through us for all creation. It is this changed awareness which recognizes a still more specialized form of grace—the grace made available to all who choose to serve God's hope for all in Christ. This is the grace which makes us disciples and is available as spiritual power for goodness' sake. Jesus exhibited this kind of power and challenged us to do the same.
Grace as a gift Per Excellence.
In our daily lives, we struggle to live, we struggle to achieve, we are determined and ambitious of a lot of things, we read over night to past Tests and exams, we eat to grow, we take our medications etc, it is very difficult to remove grace even from our Human efforts to survive because it is but for the grace of God. However, Grace does not come as a result of something you have done or in recognition of an accomplishment or milestone. So, unlike a birthday or Christmas gift that one receives in recognition of an event, grace is given to us by God for no reason. All of us are recipients of the grace of God regardless of how "good" or "bad" we are. God’s grace spurs us each day.
Grace as Unconditional
Think of what you are doing right now, seize your breath for five seconds you become uncomfortable. Think of the things you know and how you knew them. Think of the persons you have ever known in this world and how many have died. Think of all the travels you have ever made and how safe you have returned; think of the power of God’s love. It is by God’s grace. As I am writing now, I cannot imagine the things I have done without God’s grace, it is like a burning fire that stirs me up for actions to define my being. When I think of the grace of God, I think of steadfast love, compassion, mercy—a kind of unconditional acceptance that is unlike human love. To me, Psalm 103 describes the way in which God reaches out to us with this forgiving, all-encompassing love. The other powerful illustration of "grace" is the way Jesus treated persons-- accepting those who were considered outcasts by eating with them, healing them, listening and talking with them.