Good Morning All,
John 1:16; “For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.”
In a few days, you
can have cold turkey sandwiches. You can
make turkey potpie. You can make turkey
chili. You can make turkey tostados. You can try turkey lasagna. You can try turkey tetrazzini. You can make turkey a la king and the list
goes on. Many people face leftover
turkey today, tomorrow and the next few days.
Thanksgiving Day meals are very often a massive feast. One thing we can usually figure will happen
and that is leftovers. Leftover turkey,
leftover stuffing, leftover cranberry sauce, leftover green beans; lots of
leftovers.
One thing about having leftovers is that
you know that you are full from the first time you ate it. You ate and ate but still have some leftover
for later. Sometimes you have more
leftover than you ate the first time. Then
you have all that left to eat. The
interesting thing is that there are some foods that taste better as leftovers
than as “first overs”. I think oyster
stew and most chilies taste better a day or two later. But you have to have a lot to start with so
you can have enough leftovers to enjoy.
That is the point of our verse for
today. Because of the fullness of the
grace that Jesus brings into our lives.
He brings it into our lives through his all availing death on the
cross. He confirms it with his
resurrection from the grave. Through
that single event, his death on the cross, our lives are completely
changed. We are never again what we
were. We are no longer just toys and
playthings for the devil; we are God’s redeemed children. We no longer are the devil’s tools; we are
God’s beloved children.
We have enough grace, more than enough, to
face the devil’s challenges. The devil
can no longer assault us but rather must deceive us and he tries and tries. Painfully, sometimes he succeeds. We slip and fall into his trap and we suffer
for it but God is there, through Christ, waiting for us with grace upon
grace. He keeps calling us back to his
redeemed family, calling us with his grace.
Now this grace is never “just enough”
grace; we have tons of “leftover grace.”
We will have grace upon grace. We
have more than enough grace to bring us through. This is an incredible truth to hold
onto. No matter what occurs in our life,
not matter how horrible the sin we commit seems to us, we have grace upon
grace. God will always forgive us and,
with true faith, we receive the forgiveness of sins. We don’t want to waste it nor do we take it
for granted. The cost to God was far too
great to treat our grace cheaply. But
the grace is ours, grace upon grace, more grace leftover than we will ever use
no matter how much we need.
Father of all grace, we give you thanks for the
grace that you bestow upon us. We know
the wonders of your love as we look to Jesus.
Keep us mindful of your love and guide us to see the devil’s lies and
tricks. Be with those who feel that
there is no grace available for them.
Bring them to the truth of your amazing grace. In Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen
God’s
Peace,
Pastor
Bret
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