Jesus embodies all of the grace that God has for you and for me. John the Beloved says within the Gospel of John: “Jesus represents the fullness of the Father's grace and reality” (John 1:14).
Jesus is just not solely a teller of reality but additionally a giver of grace. Most of us attempt to give grace and inform others the reality on the similar time, however not Jesus. He’s most well-known for the phrase, “I inform you the reality…” and is most seen because the giver of grace.
Each relationship that met Jesus was given an equal alternative to expertise grace and obtain reality. Nevertheless, many then, as at the moment, selected to waste grace and ignore the reality.
Proverbs 19:3 says, “Individuals destroy their lives via their very own foolishness, after which they’re indignant with the Lord.”
This can be a convicting verse. How usually have you ever and I ignored God's reality, wasted God's grace, and blamed God for the result of a state of affairs or circumstance that was provoked or triggered by our unhealthy decisions? And but God continues to be a God of grace.
None of us will attain the final word aim of our life when we have now lived an ideal life within the eyes of God. All of us fall in need of God's glory.
The Gospel of John tells us in John 1:14 that Jesus is the one who is stuffed with God's grace and reality. We’re all stuffed with one thing, Jesus is stuffed with grace and reality. He has sufficient grace to beat your sins and sufficient reality to set you free from no matter delusion you’ve got chosen to consider about your life.
All of us have a sin that will get us so simply, perhaps multiple, however John's Gospel needs us to know that it doesn’t matter what we’re stuffed with, God's grace and reality in Jesus is even fuller. God needs us to expertise His grace and His reality all through our lives.
I’ve been a follower of Jesus Christ for nearly 45 years and typically I’m wondering if I get bored with Jesus and my battle with sin. I accepted Jesus as grace for my sin. I consider that Jesus is the reality that may set me free from the bonds of sin on this life, however the practicalities of my life would usually say in any other case. My selections typically appear extra like Proverbs 19:3 and fewer like Romans 8. At the same time as a pastor, simply hours after telling everybody else what God's phrase says about residing for Him, I discover myself falling again into acquainted battles, false beliefs, and discouragement from my very own life, circumstances and relationships.
The place do I flip when this Romans 7 battle is raging in my coronary heart and the practicality of my each day religion stroll with Jesus? Perhaps you may relate.
As a pastor, I watch many surrender on their stroll with the Lord as a result of they’re discouraged by the battle that rages and the victories that appear to stay elusive of their personal each day lives. The place to show in these moments of discouragement? The place ought to one flip once you marvel if God is rolling his eyes at you and saying about you: “Not you anymore!”
John's Gospel provides us some hope within the trenches of our discouragement from private sin. John 1:16 says, “From his fullness we have now all acquired grace upon grace.” This verse refers to Jesus, the sunshine of the world, the Phrase of God made flesh. From the fullness of Jesus we have now all acquired grace upon grace. The fullness that John refers to right here is the fullness of grace and reality talked about in John 1:14. God's grace is larger than your sin and God's reality is extra highly effective than the misleading lies that Devil tells every of us.
In this may be discovered hope for our each day battle with sin. However what does it imply to obtain grace upon grace? The Greek development of this phrase (χάριν ἀντὶ χάριτος) will be translated as “grace for grace”, however nowhere else within the New Testomony does the phrase happen. In Greek it is named hapax legomenon, which merely implies that it isn’t discovered anyplace else.
One in all my favourite issues to do is go to the seaside, lie in a chair and skim a great guide whereas listening to the waves. Wave after wave after wave hits the seaside just some meters away and the rhythm of this sound over time brings unbelievable peace, hope and pleasure to my soul.
That is what John was speaking about in John 1:16. God's grace with reality is consistently breaking the seaside of our lives. He has grace upon grace upon grace. Just like the waves on the shore, his grace by no means ends. The author of Lamentations 3:22 really says, “The steadfast love of the Lord by no means fails; His mercies by no means fail; they’re new each morning, nice is your faithfulness.”
Daily, each morning, there’s mercy after mercy. The waves of grace are infinite and limitless!
That is the idea in John 1:16. It's like waves on the ocean. One unbelievable wave of God's mercy and style is coming upon you, and earlier than you may course of it, one other stunning wave of God's goodness and mercy is coming into your life.
After 45 years of strolling with Jesus by religion in Him, I’m studying to relaxation within the sound of the waves of God's grace and obtain the reality that washes over me to forgive me of my sin. I hope that you just too will discover a chair on the seaside of your life and study to benefit from the sound of God's waves of grace and the hope that comes from them, as a result of identical to the waves on the seaside, His grace retains coming, grace after grace!
