“From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.” John 1:16 NIV
I was reading John 1 the other morning and this short verse jumped off the page. That’s typically a good sign that I should blog about it. The process I go through to write a Worship Wednesday post is quite simple. I ask the Lord what I should write about a few days before I’m going to write it. I get my inspiration from a thought or some circumstance in my life at the time, but usually it comes to me when I’m spending my time in the morning with the Lord reading my Bible. I then grab my phone and put the reference in the notes app along with a few thoughts. Then when it’s time to write I pray, open my Bible to that reference, and start comparing that verse with other versions.
The Message puts it this way, “We all live off his generous bounty, gift after gift after gift. We got the basic from Moses, and then this exuberant giving and receiving, this endless knowing and understanding – all this came through Jesus, the Messiah. This one-of-a-kind God-Expression, who exists at the very heart of the Father, has made him plain as day.”
In the ESV it reads, “For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.”
I want to combine them all. We have received generous gifts or blessings of grace. Lots of gifts and lots of blessings, a generous amount. But of what? GRACE! I love the ESV verbiage, “Grace upon grace.” Grace on top of grace on top of grace on top of grace! Wow!
God grants us blessings of His grace. Praise Him!
Remember God’s grace is a free gift, we did nothing to deserve it, we can never do enough to earn it. It’s a gift. And He is pouring it over us in generous amounts!
Don’t let the enemy tell you, “You are not good enough. You’re not who God’s grace is for.” The whole idea of grace is that it is a gift we don’t deserve, yet God lavishes it on us. Grab hold of this verse and shout it out loud. Replace the lies of the enemy with this truth:
God’s grace, His free gift, is yours in copious amounts. Grace upon grace!
