Today is September 14, 2010. My journey with God began in the spring of 1960 when I was a sophomore in high school. These 50 years have been marked by mountain tops and dark valleys, tears of joy and tears of sorrow, disappointment, rejection, and personal failure. In every place along the way, God has been with me. I can see His loving hand, even at my darkest, lowest times, even when I sinned against Him, a future was mapped out. I can say without even the hint of a question, since the day that I as a teenage boy, the best I knew how, put my trust in Jesus, God has been for me and not against me. His love for me has been over-the-top, His grace and mercy lavish to the point of almost being absurd, and today as an old man with aches and pains and a head of gray hair, joy wells up in my heart and I can say boldly God’s grace is enough.
Had my standing with God depended on me I would have stood condemned a thousand times. If the only righteousness God saw in me arose from my own performance I would be rejected as unrighteous and ungodly by almost any standard. But,…my standing with God is based on the person and work of Jesus Christ for me, and my righteousness is His righteousness, and I am a child of God by God’s initiative and kept by His mighty power. I am indeed a work of the grace of God.
God’s grace is His unconditional love expressed by what Jesus has accomplished for sinners and keeps on doing for saints.
God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense
For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17)
Upon this declaration I rest as I wait for the blessed hope Who is a blessed certainty. What God demands grace affords. The battle belongs to the Lord and every weapon we use to fight the evil powers of this world are weapons of grace. It is grace that leads to salvation, it is grace that teaches us to say no to ungodliness, and it is grace that will see us safely home.
Every good in me is His good, every act of love is His love, and my only hope of immortality and a place at His table is afforded by His marvelous grace.
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
Agape’
Royce
Grace Digest 
God’s is so great and wonderful that I can scarcely find words to express it. As a small child I had deep questions: Is Jesus God or is He man? The answer came years later in a Daily Vacation Bible School. I believed the truth as it came from the Bible. However, this was head knowledge. About eight years later, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart. “Repent, repent. Lynn, you are a sinner. Lynn, Christ died for your sins. Lynn, Christ arose that you may have life. Repent.” I knelt by my bed and Jesus Christ came in. Trials and troubles still come, but for His grace I’d never make it. Some day I shall live with Him eternally. Praise His dear name! Thank you for sharing about Christ’s workings in your life.
Oh what a saviour! Your pen flows so freely expressing your exceeding “attitude of gratitude” for Christ! May we all reflect more on our gift of grace!! Thanks..saving this!
Hi Royce;
As usual, your wisdom comes forth; and as God speaks through you, flowing with His
comfort and love. Reinforcement of what I have been reading lately. God IS good and full of love toward His children. !