What
is so amazing about grace? Grace grants to us in inestimable amounts complete
sufficiency for our sin while securing our relationship with the Living Holy
God through the sacrifice and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace
connects the impossible extremes of both failure and hope at the same time with
the great love of God freely gifted to us.
Grace is amazingly encompassing in its reach into our lives and
wonderfully explosive in its enabling of every life it truly touches.
May
the words of the great hymn flow through your mind and your heart this day and
may grace be upon you and in you. May the grace of God through you, touch those around you.
Amazing
grace! (How sweet the sound)
That
sav’d a wretch like me!
I
once was lost, but now am found,
Was
blind, but now I see.
’Twas
grace that taught my heart to fear,
And
grace my fears reliev’d;
How
precious did that grace appear,
The
hour I first believ’d!
Thro’
many dangers, toils and snares,
I
have already come;
’Tis
grace has brought me safe thus far,
And
grace will lead me home.
The
Lord has promis’d good to me,
His
word my hope secures;
He
will my shield and portion be,
As
long as life endures.
Yes,
when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And
mortal life shall cease;
I
shall possess, within the veil,
A
life of joy and peace.
The
earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The
sun forbear to shine;
But
God, who call’d me here below,
Will
be forever mine.
John
Newton (1779)
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