Amazing Grace

Grace has  been the subject in my devotional book the last two weeks.

 So, I asked Siri to look up the word grace and got more than I bargained for.  Found 35 definitions and 75 lines of related words. Here are four.

1 Grace - The exercise of kindness, mercy and favor to benefit or bestow on another
2 Grace - The divine favor toward man by the mercy of God.
3 Grace - The female name meaning beauty, lovely, elegant of manners
                A good middle name for my middle granddaughter
4 Grace - Yielding grace or saying a blessing giving thanks to God

Grace is mentioned over 200 times in the New testament and 130 times in Paul's letters.

Ephesians 2:8," For by Grace  are ye saved through faith....it is the gift from God."

You can do two things with a gift
1) receive it
2) reject it

By Grace:  God gave His Son
                 Jesus gave His life
                  Holy Spirit gave us gifts
2 extremes when receiving  gifts
1) over estimating our gifts = pride, arrogance and self-importance
2) under estimating gifts = false humility, belittling God's gives and not developing  gifts to be used by God

Grace = unmerited favor

Grace guides my feet to walk with you, for you and toward you
Grace begins the trip
Grace  helps us enjoy the journey
Grace enables us
Grace shields and defends
Grace gives us our only hope
Grace helps us one step at a time
Grace helps us walk in faith in this journey called life
Grace begins our journey and it ends in glory

Kind of sounds like our Hikers

Grace bridges the gap between who I am and who I want to be
Grace makes us givers and not takers
Grace effects relationships
Grace causes His love to spill out of us
Grace makes us thankful and generous
Grace makes us treat others with kindness
Grace makes us sensitive to the needs of others
Grace forgives

God gives us grace that we do not deserve and can not earn
God,  help us treat  others  with grace ...even if they do not deserve it.

Help me to extend  the same grace to others that you extended to me.

Grace is a blanket of God's love all wrapped up in the gift of Jesus.

Amazing Grace