1 Corinthians 15:10 (NIV)
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
The grace of God is God’s ability helping my inability. It is God’s unmerited, undeserved, unearned and unqualified favour of God. The law condemns the best of man, but the grace of God receives and saves the worst of man. It God’s riches towards man at Christ expense. It can not be worked for or attained; it is obtained, only in Christ.
It is good make bold, but let your boasting be in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whatever you achieve, attain or acquire; let the Lord take all the glory; this is the posture of the heart of a man of grace. A man of grace sees everything in the light of what God has done, what is doing presently and what is yet to come.
Salvation came by grace, healing comes to us by the grace and the mercy of God, provision and preservation are all by the grace of God. Do not boast in your effort, for effort can not save; there is no power in the arms of flesh; get into the habit of examining everything in the light of God’s grace grace.
How do we get our ruins to come to life? How do we cause the mundane things of this world to have eternal value; grace changes everything. With grace everything comes to the life and the light of God.
Don’t speak proudly, don’t hasten your heart into vanities, in your achievements of network of friends; refuse to be lobbied into the zone of self glory or self seeking; trust in the Lord and glory in the grace of Him who gives all in all. This is the posture of man of grace; he often remembers and says “I am what I am by the grace of God”.
DECLARATION
I am what I am by the grace of God. In this grace, here in I stand. I am in Christ justified, and Christ is in me glorifed, Amen.