“[The LORD] said to me, ‘My grace is
sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness’.” (2 Corinthians
12:9a NIV)
Plunge a sponge into Lake Erie. Did it absorb
every drop? Take a deep breath. Did it suck the oxygen out of the atmosphere? Pluck
a pine needle from a tree in Yosemite. Did you deplete the forest foliage?
Watch an ocean wave crash against the beach. Will there never be another one?
Of course there will. No sooner will one
wave crash into the sand than another appears. Then another, then another. This
is a picture of God’s sufficient grace. Grace
is simply another word for God’s tumbling, rumbling reservoir of strength and
protection. It comes at us not occasionally or miserly but constantly and aggressively,
wave upon wave. We’ve barely regained our balance from one breaker, and then, bam, here comes another.
“For from His fullness we have all
received, grace upon grace.” (John 1:16 ESB)
-- Max Lucado in “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We
Imagine”
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