GREAT GRACE
1 Samuel 9

Salvation, in the blood of Jesus Christ, is great grace and is rooted in the love of the Almighty Father. Our God is worthy of all praises and adoration because He is faithful, and He remains to be faithful, until eternity. It is good to take silent moments to acknowledge and magnify His holy name. God’s package of great grace made a young shepherd boy put an end to a terrorizing agent of the wicked that pestered the life of His children for forty days, both morning and night. The young shepherd boy permanently silenced an uncircumcised Philistine who was defying the armies of God. Saul became the first king for the children of Israel, because grace was in place for him. The first time Saul was approached, by Samuel about what God was going to do with his life, Saul confessed, “And Saul answered and said, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak like this to me?” …” (1 Samuel 9:21) The confession of Saul was a testimony to the fact that grace was in place for him to become king. It is a wonderful thing to be riding on the grace of the Lord, but it can also be a great disaster to abuse and be dropped out of the great grace of our Lord God. The same King Saul that enjoyed the great grace of God did not fair well when he ended up at the opposite side of His great grace. It was not long after he became the king that he put the garment of disobedience on toward the Word of God. Saul, having repeatedly disobeyed the Word of God, God sent Samuel to him, “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments…” (1 Samuel 15:11) The grace of God is great, and He is worthy to be greatly feared. The apostle Paul testified in 1 Corinthians 15:10, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” Just like the apostle Paul, you are what you are by the grace of God, and not just because you know how to labor that makes it possible for the grace of God toward you not to be in vain. Unlike the apostle Paul, the grace of God toward King Saul was in vain and he lost the presence of God. The Word of God is written for our learning, learn today and do not run out of the great grace of God by any act of disobedient.
Prayer for today: Lord, have mercy on me, let me not abuse your grace over my life, and let your grace toward me not be in vain in Jesus mighty name.