July 3, 2013
God's Grace and Our Future
By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.
As wonderful as God's grace is in redeeming our past, it is equally powerful in the way it changes our future. No matter how far we strayed before God's grace arrested us in our sin, His plan for us remains. God wants to see us following after Him, living lives full of love and compassion for Him and for others.
The Apostle Paul, a worthy vessel to convey the power of God's grace, writes: "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10). All along, God has been forming us in Christ Jesus to receive His love and to express His love to others.
In pondering God's grace for our lives, we must realize that it changes our past, present, and future. He has redeemed us from the bondage of sin, and He has given us a new destiny. When our lives intersect with His grace, He places us on new paths—ones He planned for us to travel all along.
God's grace is for our past, present, and future—transforming us, in Christ Jesus, into the people He has intended for us to be from the beginning of time.
Prayer: Lord, help me to walk daily in Your grace, completing the good works You have prepared for me to do. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
"Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God"(Romans 5:1-2).
Take a few minutes to listen to the song below. It was released at a time of my life that I REALLY needed it. It still brings misty eyes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7MI6hKLAU
