Grace For All Things!
"And God is able to make all grace
abound toward you, that you, always
having all sufficiency in all things, may
have an abundance for every good
work."
2 Corinthians 9: 8
Most Christians know the story of the hymn
“Amazing Grace.” Author was John
Newton
who was converted to Christ while engaged
in the British slave trade in the eighteenth
century.
He went on to become a pastor and worked
mightily abolishing the slave trade in England.
Though his memory began failing in his final
years, he was always clear about two things:
“That I am a great sinner and that Christ is
a
great Savior.”
Newton’s conviction was that God’s grace
is greater than our sin and based on Paul’s
words in Romans 5:20: “Where sin
abounded, grace abounded
much
more.”
As he wrote “Amazing Grace,” Newton
considered himself a “wretch” for having
trafficked in buying and selling of fellow
human beings. But he found God’s grace
and forgiveness to be greater than his sin.
Regardless of what you may have done,
never wonder if God’s grace is
sufficient
for you. God makes “all grace abound
toward you” in “all things,” qualifying
you for “every good work.”
"Amazing grace!
How sweet the
sound,
that saved a wretch like me!"
John Newton