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Date Posted: 13:18:44 06/26/00 Mon
Author: haw
Subject: Drawing on the Grace of God -- Now






Drawing on the Grace of God -- Now

"We . . . plead with you not to receive
the grace of God in vain"
(2 Corinthians 6:1).

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today. Grace is the
overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to
draw upon as needed. ". . . in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in
distresses" -- that is where our patience is tested (6:4).

Are you failing to rely on the grace of God there?
Are you saying to yourself,
"Oh well, I won't count this time"?

It is not a question of praying and asking God
to help you -- it is taking the grace of God now.
We tend to make prayer the preparation for our service, yet it is never that
in the Bible.
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God.

Don't say, "I will endure this until
I can get away and pray."
Pray now
- draw on the grace of God in your moment of need.

Prayer is the most normal and useful thing;
it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow
to learn to draw on God's grace
through prayer.

". . . in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors . . ." (6:5) -- in
all these things, display in your life a drawing on the grace of God,
which will show evidence to yourself and to others
that you are a miracle of His.
Draw on His grace now, not later.

The primary word in the spiritual vocabulary is now.
Let circumstances take you where they will,
but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find
yourself.

One of the greatest proofs that you are drawing on the grace of God is that
you can be totally humiliated before others without displaying even the
slightest trace of anything but His grace.

". . . having nothing . . . ."
Never hold anything in reserve.
Pour yourself out, giving the best that you have,
and always be poor.
Never be diplomatic and careful with the treasure God gives you.
". . . and yet possessing all things" --
this is poverty triumphant
(6:10).

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