Need - The Lifeline to Grace

Many of Paul’s opening greetings in his epistles begin with grace and peace to you.  The repetition of this is worthy of consideration.  

While the love of the Father is central in the formation and grounding of your core identity, grace addresses your inner transformation and empowerment.  You receive the saving life of Christ is through grace.  You are transformed into the nature of Jesus through grace.  You have access to divine ability to do what you could not do in your own capacity through grace.  The scope and potential of grace is unfathomable.  

Religion creates a subliminal and sophisticated system of works to separate you from grace.  Your intrinsic human nature, that is inclined toward independence, disassociates you from grace.  Pride elevates you above the need for grace.  Brokenness and shame says you don’t qualify for the gift of grace.

In the quest for grace, the scriptures consistently reveal that need and weakness are the principal qualifiers for grace.  Yet, we find the thought, much less the experience of need and weakness to be a perceived reproach.  How can we associate success coexisting with need and weakness.  Yet, herein we see that God gives grace to the humble, as the essence to victorious living.  

In this video, as I explore these understandings, it is my prayer that you will enter your season of ‘great grace.’  These are the rare seasons of dramatic personal transformation, with resulting conquests proceeding from inner transformation.  These times become defining, both now in this lifetime and for eternity.  

May this truly be a season of great grace for you personally, in the realization of the potential of your needs and weaknesses to access the grace of God.