Graciously Accepting His Grace

When I consider what our end would be or even could have been without God lovingly and graciously extending his grace, I cannot help but be grateful. My thoughts to God in prayer is transcribed below.

Graciously Accepting His Grace

Loving Father, Gracious God,

I thank you for allowing the Fall in the Garden of Eden which makes the Garden plus one a possibility in your new creation.

I thank you for setting your redemptive plan in motion which led to death, burial and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Father, I thank you for sending your son because now I do not have to live by the dictates of sin, but I can experience forgiveness and healing through your grace.

Now I can be restored to image of God—the moral, natural, and political— that was in the Garden before sin occurred.

Mighty God, I look forward to the complete restoration of perfection in the new Jerusalem.

But even before we get there, I am grateful that I get to be a part of your kingdom now. I get to experience your grace, now. I can experience the grace of forgiveness and healing, now.

I get to love you, now, and show love to others, now. I get to live in the joy of the Holy Spirit, now.

Almighty God, while I look forward to the end and what it looks like, I graciously accept your grace now, for now.

In Jesus’ name, amen.