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Grace Through Faith

We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:2 (CSB)

Reflection

Elsewhere (Romans 5:1-5) the Spirit, by the same Apostle, sums up the results of justification by faith with every semblance of human merit carefully excluded. Grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, has brought the believer into peace with God, a standing in grace, and assured hope of glory. Tribulation can but serve to develop in him new graces. The very love that saved him through grace now fills his heart; the Holy Spirit is given him, and he joys in God. And all by grace, through faith!
– R.A. Torrey

Growing in Grace

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
2 Peter 3:18 (NKJV)

Reflection

Grace is not merely the way God draws us to Him in the beginning. It is also the way we grow and stay in our steadfastness. We can never grow apart from the grace and knowledge of our Lord, and we never grow out of God's grace.
– David Guzik

Word of His Grace

"Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified."
Acts 20:32 (NIV)

He commends them to the word of his grace, by which some understand Christ: he is the word (John 1:1), the word of life, because life is treasured up for us in him (1 John 1:1), and in the same sense he is here called the word of God's grace, because from his fulness we receive grace for grace. He commends them to Christ, puts them into his hand, as being his servants, whom he would in a particular manner take care of.
– Matthew Henry

Strong Grace

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:1 (KJV)

Reflection

Weak grace may evidence pardon of sin; but it is strong grace that can overcome the temptations of Satan (1 John 2:12, 14), and bear up the heart in strong consolation. The blessing upon man in the first creation was, "Increase and multiply"; in the second, "Grow in grace, be strong."
– John Trapp

Abundant Life

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."
John 10:10 (NASB95)

Reflection

If you need life, you must get it from Christ. If you need more life, you must go to the same place. Do not look to Christ for the beginnings and then somewhere else for the ending! Christ has come that you might have more life. Come to Him by faith. Do not look to ceremonies or outward services or anything else for growth in grace, apart from Jesus, but fly to Him and He will give it to you—and you shall be rich to all intents of bliss.
– Charles Spurgeon

All Grace

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8 (ESV)

Reflection

It is 'all grace' which God is able to make abound toward you. So then, you see this one transcendent gift from the divine heart, when it comes into our human experience, is like a meteor when it passes into the atmosphere of earth, and catches fire and blazes, showering out a multitude of radiant points of light. The grace is…many-sided to us, but one in its source and in its character…that which God in His grace gives to us as His grace is what? Himself.
– Alexander MacLaren

Our Gracious God

So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
Hebrews 4:16 (NLT)

Reflection

I approach God on the basis of His grace and mercy towards me, not on the basis of my works and my deserving. And because I approach God on the basis of His goodness and His grace towards me, I can come boldly, and I can always receive the help that I need. I can find grace to help me in the time of my need, because I'm coming on the basis of God's invitation to me as His child.
– Chuck Smith

Sufficient Grace

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)

Reflection

When we sin or fail, it does not put us outside the reach of God's grace. Since grace is given freely to us in Jesus, it can't be taken away later because we stumble or fall. When we come to God by faith through the blood of Jesus, His grace is ever ready to meet us and to minister to our insufficiencies.
– David Guzik

Perfect Grace

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
1 Corinthians 16:23 (NASB20)

Reflection

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ comprehends in it all that is good, for time or eternity. To wish our friends may have this grace with them is wishing them the utmost good. And this we should wish all our friends and brethren in Christ. We can wish them nothing more, and we should wish them nothing less. We should heartily pray that they may value, and seek, and obtain, and secure, the grace and good-will of their Lord and Judge.
– Matthew Henry

Grace and Glory

For Yahweh God is a sun and shield; Yahweh gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk blamelessly.
Psalm 84:11 (LSB)

Reflection

"Grace and glory" will flow from Him to those who seek Him. These two are given simultaneously, not, as sometimes supposed, in succession, as though grace were the sum of gifts for earth, and glory the all-comprehending expression for the higher bestowments of heaven. The psalmist thinks that both are possessed here. Grace is the sum of God's gifts, coming from His loving regard to His sinful and inferior creatures. Glory is the reflection of His own lustrous perfection, which irradiates lives that are turned to Him…
– Alexander MacLaren

Grace to Humble

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."
James 4:6 (NKJV)

Reflection

The self-sufficient and the self-reliant are not looking for the grace of God. In their pride they do not walk in that flowing supply of the riches of the grace of God. God resists the proud. He is opposed to the proud. And so He humbles the hearts of the proud. Those who think they can handle it by their own best effort or resource will be broken that God may properly bless them with life in His grace. God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.
– Bob Hoekstra

Immeasurable Grace

So that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:7 (ESV)

Reflection

Heaven is not static. Throughout the endless ages of eternity, He will be bringing out something new to give us because of His grace. That is going to be one of the glories of heaven. I think that every day the Lord will come forth with something new…Let me hasten to add this: the first-century Christians never looked upon their giving as charity. Rather, it was simply to be like God in wanting to share what they had with others.
– J. Vernon McGee

Grace and Truth

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth…For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
John 1:14, 16 (LSB)

Reflection

If the Lord Jesus Christ had not come, we would not have what we need to walk in the righteousness of God…John 1:14 tells us that when Jesus came, He came full of grace and truth. And now, do you know what you and I have received right out of His fullness? Out of the fullness of the grace of God, we have received grace upon grace…Out of His full supply of the infinite measures of His grace, we have received abundantly.
– Bob Hoekstra