FOUNDATION OF GRACE

1 Corinthians 13:13  "And now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love."

My Father and I, through His Holy Spirit, had a conversation today.  I love it when my Father takes the time to explain things to me, to show me a word, or a part of scripture that perhaps was being missed.  The reference scripture above was not the Word that He was focusing me on, but it is the reason for all the things that He has done for me and for you.  His love.

The base, the foundation of all grace is love.  The Lord loves us all, even though I like to think of myself, and you also, if being truthful......we like to think of ourselves as God's favorite child.  You know, the one that if He looked over a group of us, we would be the first chosen to climb up on His lap to talk to Him.  I see that as me.....you see that one as you.  It's okay, I think as He loves us all the same, He doesn't mind one bit that we know we are special to Him...we are!

But as love is the foundation for grace, then the grace differs.  Each of us has needs that are different from one another.  The Lord treats us individually.  What I need in my life will be so different from your needs.  Grace, I believe, is applied daily according to the need we have for that day.  Where I may rise in the morning, after a bad nights rest, I may need grace for strength of body, clarity of mind.....and you may have slept a full eight hours and wake up refreshed but are going to have a long day at work....you may need grace for extra body strength and stamina.  We have individual needs and God's grace is applied to each of us accordingly.

I have been studying the Holy Spirit, reading and seeing that grace applied to me through the Holy Spirit.  In Acts 2:3, the Word tells us "Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat on each of them."  Again, we are treated individually......we, when we are born again, when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we are given our own spiritual tongue.  No one's is alike.  I have seen folks mimic the tongue of another, but it is not theirs, their true spiritual tongue is unlike another.  I like knowing that when I am praying in my prayer language, my own prayer language, instantly the Lord knows it is me, just as He knows your voice, He knows your spiritual language voice.  How special we are to the Lord, that He takes the time to treat us special, individual.

What a horrible thing it would be, I feel, if we were lumped into one big group and dealt with as such.  I shudder to think of any of you, my dear friends, being judged for my sin.  I would not have wanted that for any of you.  Nor do I believe you would want someone else paying for your sin in the past.  But the Lord treats us separately, He deals with us individually, and He keeps those things to Himself, and after the sin was purged from us by the blood of our Savior, Jesus, the Lord, our God, threw those things as far from Him, never to be reminded of them again.  We do not treat our eyes as we would our hand, but they are all parts of our body.  The Lord treats us all special, individual, and yet we are all a special, important part of the body of Christ, the Bride of our Lord.

The foundation of grace is love.  Love is the foundation for all that transpires between the Lord and us.  Thank You, Lord, for treating us in love, with divine mercy that comes anew each morning, Your grace is flowing down to us from a never ending river of love and that love that is shown gives us a glimpse into what is waiting for us in You.....eternal life.  What grace is mine, given from Your love divine. 

Friends, when you think of how the Lord treats us, all different, individually, but with the same love behind His affections, His gifts, His blessings, His mercy and His wondrous grace.  Thank You, Lord.  Thank You, my Father.

05-19-13