Law and Grace

When we try to use our human logic to think about the grace of God, it is a very hard thing to do, it is too deep to comprehend and it is far more than what we human think about! The grace of God, we see this “grace” as something unrealistic to talk about. In the Bible we read about “grace” but many of us may not truly grasp how deep, how unconditional this “grace” is to us. Apostle Paul warned us not to ignore “grace”, not to go into the works of the flesh. When we go into the works of the flesh, it drains our energy, it makes us tired, vulnerable and most of all as we go into that works of the flesh, we have stolen the glory of God! “Grace” is something we human don’t deserve to receive, something we human cannot get it by ourselves, it bases not on our performance, but purely and only by our merciful and gracious God. God in His kindness to us, He freely gives us “grace”, this “grace” we know it represents the love of Jesus Christ, that He died for our sins, and because of His blood, we are set free forever!! We meant to live by “grace” – the power of the Holy Spirit, the source of our strength! We are not meant to live by our own strength, but by the strength of the Almighty God, His holy spirit living in us all! When we totally rely on the grace of God, we truly give Him all the glory in our lives.

My life has been dramatically changed by the grace of God, this “grace” is solely motivated by the love of God! Because the love of God towards human, we are now reconnected ourselves with God through His Son Jesus Christ, as we acknowledged Him as Lord of our lives, and we confessed that He is Lord. We have this right to be called the children of God. We are sons and daughter of the Most High King. And as I shared my past life with you, please understand the Grace of God working in me, He has compassionated over me, and He truly loves sinners as the Bible says He is. And there is no other love greater than His love for me! And there are many myths in the world these days, telling even believers not to believe that God can change peoples’ lives upside down, and many have believed in this! That’s a very sad fact to discuss about. And one thing I know, my God is real for there is no other God can change me in a such a dramatic way, only Jesus Christ can do.

I used to be in a lesbianism relationship, I was growing up in a broken family, ignored most time by my father at home, and in my school years, many boys and girls were laughing at my appearance, and so I isolated myself from them, and started to wondering who I was, and why I was on this earth, it seemed everything is useless, and meaningless to me. My parents didn’t realize my problem yet, and because of my distant father, and even my mother was somehow near me, I didn’t know who I was, and I couldn’t remember the time my father and my mother was calling ‘daughter’ or even ‘good daughter’. I couldn’t really recall any of those sweet words to me at all. So I grew up listening to what others have to say about me, if they described as useless, I believed it, if they described as ugly, I believed it too. And one day I remembered as I read Genesis chapter in the Bible, it talked about God’s creation, He created men and women, meant to put them together as one. It was something simple, but that particular day, the revelation came to me, I started to say sorry to God, that I have wronged Him, I realized that He created me for a man, but I was walking the opposite way of His original plan for my life. I started to repent of my sin, and that was my major breakthrough, and then God put me in a school as the teaching assistant, that was one of His miracle to me, which I will call it “grace”.
I didn’t have the right qualification for being the teaching assistant, I didn’t take on any studies on education at all, and as I went for the interview, the principal was extremely kind to me, reading my resume with interests, I thought to myself, my resume was very ugly, no one will ever take any interests in that. But she cared for me, and I left and assumed I will need to wait for the result, then the school administration girl came running toward me and asked me to go back into the school, as the principal has something to say to me, I was in shocked and wondering what was going on. She looked at me and said, I believe you are the right person for this position! I was screaming out loud, actually I hid myself in a corner and cried….I know and I know that the “grace” of God was upon me, His favor was on me, He blessed me with that job. And I put on skirt every day for my teaching, and I started to learn about my own self as a girl that God created me to be. There are many things to say about the “grace” of God to me. In this example, I got the job not because of my own ability, it clearly told you that it is by the “grace” of God, He enabled me to get the job!

There’s nothing that God cannot do for you, are you willing to follow Him and be renewed and be transformed by the word of God? It didn’t come immediately for my transformation, as I walk with the Lord step by step, I can see my changes from time to time, from glory to glory. I remembered the first time I had my long hair, I went to hair salon, I almost screamed it out loud – I feel like a woman! As the guy gently brush my hair for me, I feel so good to be a woman! God has changed me in many ways and I just cannot deny His existence. And He has shown Himself great among other so called gods.

Let us all meditate on the Grace of God and realizing that the Grace of God is far better than the works of the flesh. Let us rest in His Grace, shall we? And give Him all the glory He alone deserves!