Jayamsih! Welcome to today’s devotion.
Grace is sufficient!
Ephesians 3:7-8
- Why did God leave Adam? He made him err and gave him the chariot, and yet why did God leave Adam to still have his will? Why should the enemy, as he has been completely thrown away in verse and yet not completely thrown away in experience? Why has God been abandoning him little by little (Deuteronomy 7:22)? Why increase in grace? Why can’t we reach? Why do we always need to fall (John 3:30)? Why do we always have to learn obedience? Why can’t we accept that we have arrived? Why stay? Why can’t we say that we have accomplished this while living in humanity?
The reason is that God does not want spiritual robots, but people who experience that His grace is sufficient. He wants His strength to be perfected in our weakness instead of being like people who have strength but no weakness. God does not make us perfect, because He wants us to be accepted as perfect by His grace before we are perfect, so that we do not misunderstand the revelation of grace. Otherwise, we would not be able to understand what has grown in perfection.
God accepts us before we are acceptable (KC 1:6). He provides the perfect note before the note is perfected. He sees us mature when we are immature (Colossians 2:10). Even when we fail, He considers us dead to sin (Romans 6:11/Philippians 3:15). Grace is sufficient to see that we live in Christ, while at times we live in Adam. Our experience denies Christ’s provision, but God’s grace establishes His provision as our experience, but God’s grace cannot impute sin. This is enough. His strength is perfected in all forms of weakness.
Today’s reading passage is Joshua 19-21