God's grace produces true worship

God's grace produces true worship. You don't talk about your own achievements, your works, what you have done. You talk about what our Saviour Jesus has done.

Grace makes it hard for you to condemn your brother for having a speck in his eye, because your own eyes have been "unlogged" by the Lord to see that "that would be me if it wasn't for God's grace." Grace stops sin.

Like our Saviour Jesus Christ in Matthew 9:36, when you see the crowd confused and scattered away from the path of righteousness, you have compassion on them because you see sheep without a Shepherd:

"36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd."

So instead of condemning God's beloved who are going astray and telling them to find their way back on their own with more rules and regulations (the Law) that cannot make any righteous in God's sight (Romans 3:20,) you point them to the Lord our Shepherd (Grace!) who leads us on the path of righteousness; the One that God sent not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Grace makes you see that even our being called to believe Jesus is a precious gift from God, as it is written in John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day." And there we were thinking that we decided to follow Jesus because of our morality, smarts and good sense:)

Grace causes you to do exploits to the glory of God, like Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:10-
"10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me."

Grace makes us see that without Christ, we can do nothing. We see how much we need our Saviour and how blessed we are in Him.

This is God's undeserved, unmerited favour. None of me. All of Christ.

The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.

Believe Right and you will Live Right.

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