Looking through the Lens of Grace

"Is anything too hard for the Lord?" - Genesis 18:14a

The story goes when the Lord promised Abraham that he will be a Father of all nations and his wife Sarah will bear him a child. Sarah overheard from the three visitors that indeed she will conceive a child in her old age while Abraham had already been worn out.  She laughed at what she heard and so questioned in herself the ability of the Lord to make miracles.

Oftentimes we act like Sarah did. When faced with a promise from the Bible, we reckoned if such can ever happen to us with the situation at hand. We look at the promise with the eyes of the present situation. Whenever we do that, we limit the hands of the living God to do great and marvelous things into our lives and so frustrates ourselves.

"Is there anything too hard for the Lord?" Let us ask ourselves once more, "Is there?" The Bible tells us that the things of the past is written to teach us. They are written accounts of the goodness of the Lord to those He pleases to bless. May the lives of the characters in the Bible remind us that indeed God is the God who makes miracles and still doing miracles after miracles to our lives.

God's sustaining grace is never far from us. It's always just an arms-length. We only need to be still and trust Him while He's busy working out the details of our lives. This is not the time to hold everything with our bare hands and play superman. It's time to look into out lives through the lens of God's grace. As he said, "My Grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9