Have you heard of the term "Grace of God", but don't know what it means? There is nothing more beneficial for a practicing Christian than learning more about the Bible and Christian precepts and putting them into practice.
A grace is something granted to you without you deserving it. This means that God's Grace is a blessing granted to you without you necessarily having the right to receive it.
When the term "God's Grace" is mentioned, some people tend to think that God offers His Grace only through salvation, as an unmerited blessing.
However, God's Grace can be granted in other circumstances of life too, not just in your salvation. This is the case with God's forgiveness, for example, in exchange for your repentance for having committed a sin.
God's Grace vs. God's Justice
God's Grace can be considered an undeserved blessing. According to this concept, it seems contradictory to the concept of God's Justice.
However, we need to understand that God loves his children and that's precisely why he grants his Grace, even if the children don't deserve it.
Most people don't understand why there is so much suffering in the world, or even why they are going through such a difficult time. In this way, many stop believing in divine justice. However, only God knows all things, and at many times He allows suffering to happen in order to teach lessons, even if it is not visible to human eyes at the time, God always acts justly.
Therefore, the mistake here is in not truly understanding what God's Grace is, which is not distributed randomly. God always acts in your favor, even applying divine justice, He can be very merciful and offer divine grace in difficult times, for example.
In this sense, moments of suffering are a way of achieving something better in your life. This is the case of learning to be more patient after falling ill, for example.
Divine justice also applies penalties in the case of sins committed. In the Bible, there is not a single man who has not committed sin, with the exception of Jesus Christ. Therefore, no man is immune from being penalized through God's justice.
This is because one of Adam and Eve's punishments for eating the forbidden fruit was that all their descendants would be sinners, with the possibility of finding salvation by practicing the biblical precepts.
In addition, moments of suffering are God's way of giving you the opportunity to reap good rewards in the future by not being wronged.
In this sense, every sin committed will be penalized by God. Receiving God's forgiveness (a grace) does not cancel out the judgment and penalty. To better understand this concept, we need to understand how God's Grace is revealed in Jesus Christ.
God's grace revealed in Jesus Christ
In a merciful way, even though all the descendants of Adam and Eve were condemned to be sinners, God sent Jesus Christ to us as his greatest form of grace.
It is in this way that it is possible to understand exactly what God's greatest Grace is. The sins of all people were placed on the shoulders of Jesus Christ, so that all human beings would be cleansed.
In this sense, the greatest expression of God's Grace was sending his only begotten son to cleanse the sins of all human beings. This was the grace granted by God that no one deserved to receive.
In addition, Jesus Christ left a compilation of sacred texts in the Bible so that everyone could learn to live according to God's expectations. In this sense, another Grace granted by God is salvation, but based on merit and divine justice.
In this sense, it is possible to receive different kinds of graces from God through truly Christian behavior. God can grant mercy, forgiveness and even miracles, as long as people follow the precepts of the Bible.
The different types of graces granted by God
God's Grace in the Bible, most emphatically in the New Testament, can be granted to you by God in various ways: by forgiving erratic behavior, by offering mercy in difficult times or by fulfilling a request made by you through prayer.
There is no exact word or term to explain God's grace.
In order to understand the immensity of a Grace from God, you have to understand the blessings He gives you without deserving them. That is its true meaning.
There is a penalty for sins, yes, but there is also God's forgiveness. There are difficult times, but there is God's mercy to give you relief and a solution. We are sinners, but there is the Bible to guide our conduct in life in a Christian way. Therefore, both divine justice and God's grace work together.
While divine justice is applied, there are divine graces as forms of liberation.
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