Oh, you grace! Who deserves you?

Even though grace is in abundance, anyone who sins to this advantage, has already been disgraced! It was grace through which we were called from the depth of darkness which darkened not only our deeds, but also our hearts and minds, leaving us chained in the desires of all that is not of God, and loving anything that cannot be identified as good. We did all sorts of shameful things without shame. We could not be found anywhere else other than the kingdom of iniquity! But God, who is clean and supreme above all, saw it better to charge it all to His only Son, so that all who believe this message, may be counted as his own. It was not because we deserved it, for we do know that grace in itself, is undeserved, for anything deserved can be worked for, but this grace counts on no deeds but God's love. We were rescued from the powers of hell through God's grace, into an everlasting hope which we never imagined. It was the very truth we learned about Christ, which brought us to this grace, and it was the grace that brought us this gospel. Not only did his grace bring us out of death and shame, but he also marked us as his own by pouring The very Spirit that lives in him. Now, we know that a spirit of a person lives only in their body, but we have received his own Spirit, which makes us one with him; for this very reason, he has called us "My Body" and himself, "The Head". This means that we are, indeed, seated together with Him, at this very moment, at the mighty place of honour, as the scripture says: ... He made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. -- Eph 2:6-8 Now that we have been made right in God's eyes through faith in His Son, Jesus our Savior, and are seated mightily in a place that our spirits long to reach, how then, can we continue to live in the sins we used to love? Are we not to dearly submit ourselves every single day before God, that His Spirit, who is in Him and in us, may continue to correct and lead us? Indeed, anyone who has grown to know the light of salvation, would keep himself away from the worthless things that separate himself from God's word. Yet, of cause, anyone who has not yet seen this light, is no worse off than anyone who claims they do, for the righteous still need this light as much as sinners do. For if we continue to humble ourselves dearly about the light of knowledge we have, we will continue to be eager to seek for more! Yet, on the other hand, anyone who puts himself supreme over other believers, making himself more righteous than others, is the very one who needs prayers, intercessions and anointing, for his spirit crawls devoid of all strength in Christ. In this, we know that, anyone who exults himself is without strength, and anyone who humbles himself has seen grace and truth, and is approved in God; for God humbled Himself down low until the place of death. We are to follow in His ways! We have not received the light to blind out those who do not have it, but to humbly lead them into more light; for we were once like them, living in ignorance . James Keller once said: "A candle surely loses nothing when it lights another." This is true! Yes, the more candles you light up, the more light the room has. Show your light in peace, even during the storms. Love all, as you love yourself, for if you do this, you will find reasons to pray for them as you would pray for yourself ( you pray for yourself because of the love you have for your own self). This light humbles our hearts proving that we have been received by God through grace alone; do to others just as God did for you. Be patient, and gentle; for a harsh correction has never corrected the soul. In this way, I rest my pen in Christ, who graciously gave it to me, filled my spirit with ink, and my heart with love to share these things. May our God, through Jesus, correct the living beings of this age, for his sake! Let anyone who has hope, hold on to it, making sure that they have held onto what will save them at the Lord's return!