If I mentioned it once, My Grace is enough for you!

If I mentioned it once, My grace is enough for you!

Just so I didn’t hear incorrectly you said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.”  (1 Cor 12: 9).  

For some people who always double check what they heard might not be the correct meaning since they are used to making sure to cross the t’s and dot the i’s.  But the Lord is certain as he told Paul, my grace is sufficient.  Weaknesses will always confront us and the more we tend to fall into sin, the more often we will doubt his continued mercy.  

But the one certainty about God is his unrelenting position to continue forgiving us even up to the very moment we should die.  It is a Godly action that is so far above human capacity when it is always quick to accuse another person over and over when the slightest infraction of anyone whom we can get upset with never will fit the definition of our meaning of peacefulness.

“Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.”  It is true, because of the greatness and inexpressible glory of God, that “man shall not see me and live,”  for the Father cannot be grasped.  But because of God's love and goodness toward us, and because he can do all things, he goes so far as to grant those who love him the privilege of seeing him….For “what is impossible for men is possible for God.”  (St. Irenaeus).

There will true glory be, where no one will be praised by mistake of flattery; true honor will not be refused to the worthy, nor granted to the unworthy; likewise, no one unworthy will pretend to be worthy where only those who are worthy will be admitted.  There true peace will reign, where no one will experience opposition either from self or others.  God himself will be virtue’s reward; he gives virtue and has promised to give himself as the best and greatest reward that could exist…”I shall be their God and they will be my people…”  This is also the meaning of the Apostle’s words  “So that God may be all in all.”   God himself will be the goal of our desires; we shall contemplate him without end, love him without surfeit, praise him without weariness.  This gift, this state, this act, like eternal life itself, will assuredly be common to all.  (St. Augustine).

An expressible premise that we must adhere to is when others seem to get on our nerves for no more than what we seem to believe is God’s permission to hate them or have a desire to harm them is only our own lack of believing what God has promised through the Beatitudes.  We must follow the teaching of the same if we expect his grace that is Christ’s promise of his Father.

Ralph B. Hathaway