Hosanna Restoration Church

The best answer I can give to how grace works is to simply say it does. It is sort of like believing that God is; just as sure as He is and He does what only He can do, so it is that grace works. Grace is the favor of God. If we believe in the favor of God, we will experience it. In fact, we are all the beneficiaries of His favor before we ever believe in it. God so loved the world through grace. It is by grace through faith that we are saved. Grace simply works.

I hope the title of this devotion did not deceive you into thinking that I have the answers or a formula concerning grace. The good news is that there is no formula or anything of the sort. Grace is God manifesting Himself. Just like God is love, God is grace. His great grace can be seen throughout the Bible and it is best to just believe it.

I believe it was grace that was upon Adam and Eve after they sinned. It was grace that delivered Cain. If God were not gracious, He would have squished him like a bug. If you were to take your concordance and just look up grace you would find the trail of God’s grace and see as I have that it simply is what it is and does what it does.

In this scripture we see that grace was producing a powerful witness in the believers. They were showing the power of the resurrection of our Lord by the grace that was upon them. Miracles and signs and wonders were happening everywhere they went.

This grace produced amazing things in the people. One obvious manifestation was compassion. The believers had compassion for each other and as a result God’s grace manifested in generosity. No one lacked anything. They did not have to beg or manipulate; people just recognized the legitimate needs of others and met them.

The best way to learn how grace works is to let grace have its way in our lives. We are saved when we respond to God’s saving grace. I don’t think anyone can really explain how saving grace works. There are not words to adequately explain it, but everyone who has experienced it is sure glad they did.

The same grace that saves is the one that delivers, empowers and protects us. It is the same grace that moves in us by the Holy Spirit and we find ourselves transformed into the image of God, doing things that only God’s grace could ever cause us to want to do.

The grace of God is always present to transform us into whatever it is that we need or that God needs from us. His grace will provide us with the faith to stand when we do not understand. His great grace will give us wisdom in every situation. In all things, God’s grace works.