“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,” (Titus 2:11)

 “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17) Jesus is the grace of our Lord God for every man that chooses to believe and receive Him. John 1:12, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” (John 1:12) Knowing about Him is different from knowing Him. Those that know Him know Him enough to receive and believe Him as their Lord and Savior. Have you received and believed in Him? It is possible to believe Him and not receive Him. Many saw and many heard about the work He did; they know about Him but they choose not to receive Him as their Lord and Savior. For example, “…Among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue.”(John 12:42) Inability to confess Him is a demonstration of not having received Him. To confess Christ is living a life that demonstrates the confession that is made about Him. Confession without belief, or belief without confession, is incomplete. Jesus is the unconditional love of God, the grace of God that came to give life abundantly to those that care to receive and believe in Him. Titus 2:11, “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,” Clearly, Jesus is the unconditional love of God and the grace that came for us. However, to enter into the unconditional love of God, there is a need for us to condition ourselves by taking the right position. Whenever there is inability to take the right position, there will be disability in entering the abundance of His grace. Right positioning will deliver unto us the fullness of His abundant grace as the year goes by. The position to be taken is to love and forgive. As a believer that worships the living God, we are to love and not hate. Many times in the pages of the Bible, the command to love is constantly and repeatedly emphasized. We are to love our neighbors and to know how to forgive, “You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.” (Leviticus 19:18) Clearly, loving and forgiving cannot be separated; neither can the love for God be compromised. Deuteronomy 6:5, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” There is no any other way to enter into the fullness of His abundant grace without being fully conditioned in the position of loving and forgiving. Jesus taught His disciples how to pray when he stated, “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12) Forgiving is the heart of His coming. He wanted us to know that without forgiving, salvation will be stagnated. How much we know, and how long we have known him will not count for us in taking the position that leads into His abundant grace He has made available for us. Living fully in the command of His word–loving and forgiving–is all that will count; it is the only avenue to entering our abundant grace. Jesus testifies to the grace available for us when He stated in John 10:10, “…I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” Are you going to take the required position of entering the abundance of His grace made available by the grace of the Lord God? When you do not take to the life that He came to give us, claiming or attempting the throne of grace could be elusive. Every command of God does have its promise and requirement for what it takes to attain the promise. The grace of God is more than sufficient. God is faithful and He wants us to have faith by receiving and believing in His grace. Now that the understanding of positioning is there, “…Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain and find grace to help in time of need.” (Hebrew 4:16) Jesus is the grace of God for those that receive and believe. Meditate on 2 Corinthians 13:14, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.” Jesus is the grace and the unconditional love of God that is worthy of all praise.  
        
Whenever there is inability to take the right position, there will be disability in entering the abundance of His grace.
There is no any other way to enter into the fullness of His abundant grace without being fully conditioned in the position of loving and forgiving.
‘Tunde