The grace of God is twofold: grace saves us from sin through the cross of Jesus and grace empowers us to serve God through the Holy Spirit.
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I was leading worship in my church one Sunday morning when God taught me a very valuable lesson on grace. I was not in a good place in my life at the time. Although I was studying for the ministry and active in church, I was going through a period of dark rebellion. I was very critical and looked for loopholes in Scripture to qualify my unfounded motives. As I played my guitar and led the worship that day, the congregation moved to a higher level of the experience of the Spirit. I was dumbfounded. “How can this be, Lord?” I said in my head as I sang. “These people are in deep worship and yet I – their worship leader – am in a bad place. I feel so unworthy.”
In an instant, I sensed God’s answer, “Yes, Dudley, you are unworthy.”
“There you go,” I grunted indignantly in my heart, “I’m going to quit and hang up my guitar!” Again, the unmistakable still small voice spoke: “You are unworthy to lead these people in worship,” he said, “but I’m not!” Instantly I realised that it was, indeed, not I who was leading the worship that day, it was the Holy Spirit in me drawing those people into the throne room of God. It was God’s doing not mine. A harsh lesson in the truth of grace. Grace is God’s doing, not mine.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
I discovered that no matter how bad I was feeling, if God had called me to do a job for him then it’s him in me doing it; not me. This is why Paul writes that Jesus once told him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” God’s grace is God doing the job through you even when you’re feeling weak.
The grace of God is twofold: grace saves us from sin through the cross of Jesus and grace empowers us to serve God through the Holy Spirit. By the Holy Spirit Paul writes, “I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” We labour by God’s powers and not our prowess. And that’s grace.
John Newton said, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.” Grace is God’s doing. Therefore, to stop doing what you are called to do because you feel unworthy is to insult the grace of God.
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