GRACE

I just want to forget how the whole world seems wrong most times. It's like the more one strives on his own, the more difficult everything seems to appear most times.

I ask, why strive when the productivity of one’s effort is futile?

Then I came across a passage in the scripture which emphasizes on grace; it speaks that "it's not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of him whom the Lord Almighty showeth mercy".

That scripture I believe is the being of most of our existence, cos no matter how much one struggles, if the grace of God is missing in such a man’s life, then all his efforts are futile.

And to buttress this, I recall the passage which says; "I will give mercy to whom I want".

So, I guess my questions are;

📍1: How do you know such grace has been bestowed upon you?

📍2: Can one obtain the grace if you have not been given naturally, like Jacob was given right form the womb?—cos the uniqueness of Gods' grace is that it will ONLY be given to whom is favoured by Almighty—the Baba of grace.

📍3: Is there a criteria for obtaining the grace?

📍4: If you have not obtained the grace, is there any point striving for it, —bearing in mind that without the grace ones whole effort is futile and null et void, but also being cognisant of the fact that God has the final seal of approval.

Grace!!! These questions are but a few as regards to the issue of grace and its complexity—as regards to our spirituality and earthly strive.

Grace— I have come to realise is a very complex part of spirituality which is complicated and too mysterious for an earthly man to fully comprehend.

But then, I guess that is the sole base of Christianity. With our earthly understanding, we are incapable of comprehending spiritual/heavenly matters. And as all good, faithful Christians do, we apply faith to the heavenly, incomprehensible subjects.

We call on the power of faith to lead us through believing that all will be made crystal clear once we get to that wonderful place-Heaven.

Alas, while still on earth, and things don't work as planned despite all the strives, we still have to have faith that the higher authority has better plans for us and not that the grace just isn't genetically meant for us.

Cos despite how the story of Esau and Jacob turned out, I still want to believe that there is a greater heavenly reason one was prophesied to be gracefully-favoured before conception while the other wasn't.

                    Amara-Nonye Thoughtspiration