Grace Happened!

READ : Hebrews 4:16 (KJV)   Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Grace has been defined, not as a created substance of any kind, but as "the love and mercy given to us by God because God desires us to have it, not because of anything we have done to earn it", "the condescension or benevolence shown by God toward the human race". It is understood by Christians to be a spontaneous gift from God to man - "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved" - that takes the form of divine favor, love, clemency, and a share in the divine life of God.

The word “Grace” derived from the Greek, charis was related to chairo , “to rejoice.” It came to signify “favor,” “goodwill,” and “loving-kindness.”

The 1st time grace appeared in the Bible was in Genesis 6 : 8, where Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord. Before Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord, the earth was filled with wickedness and the human race was doing evil all the time.

This generation also happens to be in a world we see to be bad. The truth is we sometimes feel along the way that we were not made for this world. The world has it's delightful moments but it is the same place filled with anger, hatred, betrayal, corruption and death. The question most of us ask is "how do we get out of this?" and the answer to this question is one simple word GRACE!

The word grace has more elegance than we can think of; it was by the grace of God that the prodigal son was given a second chance in His father's house, by the grace of God the thief on the cross was forgiven and shown the way to heaven.

In the book of Genesis 6, when the Lord saw how the human race was filled with inhumanity, and how the world was filled with wickedness in the thoughts of humans and their hearts could only think of doing evil, God saw that Noah had the heart to do good and show compassion to his fellow human and hence found grace in the sight of God. Noah in his time was blameless and a righteous man among his colleagues so to say and walked faithfully and lived in an honorable way in the time where his colleagues were living a life of great wickedness. The Holy Bible say's " the Lord regretted that he had made human beings on earth and his heart was troubled and wanted to wipe from the face of the earth the human race he had created. "

Grace does not depend on the goodness of the receiver but the goodness of the giver. Grace always show us to be good, to be faithful, be still and wait upon the Lord, and live a blissful life. God gives us grace upon grace in our life each new day and we have to show this grace to one another everyday of our life. What this world needs now is for the human race to show grace, when we show grace we are sowing love and when we sow seeds of Love, you sow joy into others and when they have a joyful attitude it makes them feel good and when they feel good, they do good and reminds them about how love can change the human nature through the act of grace.

God knows the mess of our life and He answers it with grace upon grace. What happened? Grace Happened!