"We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain" (2 Cor 6:1).
Grace must be a manifestation of the whole nature of God to man. It is ALL that God is, made available to affect ALL that man has become. It is divine resources placed at man's disposal; it is energy flowing into temporal creatures. Grace builds a bridge between time and eternity, and narrows the gap between heaven and earth. Grace enables the godless to become Godlike without losing their humanity. Without grace, man has no hope of God in this world or in the world to come.
God doesn't want to lead His people merely by codes and ethics, by rules and regulations , by limitations, by imposition of a hard and fast law, rule or command. Instead, God wants to lead His people with His presence, with that soft-spoken inner voice, and He wants a response of faith, not fear. He wants us to respond to the commander, not to a command. He is interested that we be recipients, not of law, per se, but of grace in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. From the moment Christ was revealed to men, they began to be the recipients of grace in a magnitude unheard of in the Old Testament, for Jesus is God's channel of grace; it flows from Him abundantly. Those who learn to come into fellowship with Him find themselves in a flow of grace that baffles explanation!
- Judson Cornwall, Let Us See Jesus, pp. 27-28
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