Alan's Weekly Blog - God is my Source

Are you facing a tough problem today? Here is some good news: Christ's grace is sufficient for us. Graces is God's favor, his unmerited favor. The Apostle John tells us that, “From his fullness we all received grace upon grace, ” John 1:16. In other words we have received one grace after another. And the writer of Hebrews tells us that Jesus sits on the thrown of grace which we can access at anytime.

From 2 Corinthians 12:7 we see Paul once grappled with what he referred to as a thorn in the flesh which he ask for deliverance from the Lord thee times. Tradition says that this thorn in the flesh was a disease that Paul suffered from. But this explanation would be contradictory to God's nature to put disease on his children. No, the scripture says in Psalms 103 that God heals all our diseases and from the book of James, that every good and perfect gift comes from above from the Father of lights (James 1:17). Paul explains that this thorn was a messenger of Satan sent to discourage him.

In response to Paul's plight the Lord said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness,” 2 Corinthians 12:9. Thus, Paul realized that he did not need to plead with Christ to remove this thorn because the Lord had already made his grace available not just to endure the problem but to overcome and be victorious over it. Paul could now rejoice and glory in the strength that was placed on top of his weakness; in the super that was on his natural. He no longer had to suffer; he could face that messenger of Satan and tell him to 'go' because Christ grace was more than enough to deal with him.

The same is true for us. We should not let the circumstances that we are facing cause to speak words of doubt and defeat. Christ has already made his sufficient grace available to us. So we should receive that grace, rejoice and speak enthusiastically about it and expect victory to come about in our lives.