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What's The Big Deal About Grace?

Author: Mike Fletcher

The New Testament is all about grace.

But do you know what grace really is all about?

The theologians define it as the unmerited favor of God. But really, it's a free gift. An undeserved handout. God chose to give you light so you can get out of the dark. He chose to cure your blindness and give you sight. He GAVE you LIFE. Eternal life, fulfilling life close to him. That's grace.

Grace is... God chose you. God drew YOU to him. John 6:43 says: 'No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.'

The Bible tells us in John 1:1 that Jesus was the Word and with Word was with God before the beginning and the Word was God. The pre-existent Jesus Christ.

Ever since man rebelled and fell into sin and darkness God has been there, a light shining in the darkness that came to earth and became a man so we would find the way, the truth and the life. The incarnation of Jesus Christ.

Let me challenge you to look at your life.

What's it like? Jesus wants it to be eternal. That's the glorious security we have. Once saved, forever saved. Jesus wants to give you a present life that is full and abundant. That's why he came.
What does it mean to have a full and abundant life? Think of the 23rd Psalm, perhaps the most quoted and comforting part of the whole Bible. 'The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures.' We all know those verses.

But here's something many people DON'T know. Sheep will not eat and drink when they are laying down. It is a fact and it gives very special meaning to the phrase 'he make me to lie down in green pastures.'

You see if a sheep is laying down, even in the greenest pastures and even with the most tender grass within an inch of its muzzle, the sheep won't eat the grass. Instead, if it's hungry, it has to scramble up to its feet, bend over and then eat what was much easier to reach before.

Thus, when the psalm tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ, our shepherd, makes us to lie down in green pastures, it means that HE is able to satisfy us so completely that we cannot possible yearn for anything more.

That is the joy of a full and abundant life in Christ. For he is the bread of life that satisfies all our hunger, the water of life that quenches our deepest thirst.

Author Bio:

The author publishes the Share Your Testimony (sharetestimony.com) Christian site and the Online Christian Shopper (www.onlinechristianshopper.com) evangelism portal specializing in Christian apparel and Christian jewelry.

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