Beautiful Grace

Grace. Such a beautiful word! I love the way it sounds, the way it looks. It's just....beautiful. So calming and peaceful. So powerful. And yet so hard to grasp. It sometimes feels as though it's at arms reach...we try but we just can't quite grab on and take hold. I want to be able to hold it close to my heart and never let it go. Not really the word, but the meaning behind the word. The Person behind the word! I want to truly understand His grace in my life. Joyce Meyer wrote a book "If Not For the Grace of God"; I highly recommend it. I have read and reread, and still don't feel like I completely have a handle on grace. Here are just a few things she says: "Grace is the power of God available to meet our needs without any cost to us. It is received by believing rather than through human effort. There is nothing more powerful than grace! If you and I will allow the grace of God to have full reign in our life, nothing will be impossible to us. Without that grace, nothing is possible to us. Everything we are and do and have is by the grace of God. We must learn to commit our lives to God, trusting ourselves to Him in everything and for everything, relying not upon our great faith but upon His marvelous grace." Wow!!! My devotion this morning said this: "Grace is God's power coming to us free of charge to help us do with ease what we could never accomplish on our own. Grace is freeing! It puts the burden to perform on God, rather than on us. As believers in Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf." Wow again!!! I really want to wrap my mind around these truths! Help me, Lord, to not only understand your grace, but to accept it, and embrace it. Free me, Lord.