GRACE (So Irresistible)

There is a story of a woman who desperately seek a breakthrough for her daughter, and her only place of help is a place where she is ineligible to get help. Her case is liken to an illegal immigrant into the United State of America walking up to the welfare office to ask for unemployment benefit


You can imagine the scenario. In the first instance, will he even have access to the building? Even if he does, what ground does he have to ask for such? I believe if anyone try such, he/she would be on the next available flight to his/her country.


But this is exactly what the woman did! She didn’t hold back, even when it was obvious that she is ineligible and was initially ignored but later turned down that she doesn’t have a "passport/or even a green card" so ineligible to enjoy the citizens' rights, she didn’t go home to sulk or whine neither did she run to the United Nations office to cry and report racial discrimination… No she didn't do any of this, rather she stayed back , held on and got the citizen's right.


We all know the story, it is in Matthew 15:21-28. Here Jesus commended her faith but looking closer, I saw she enjoyed what nobody or situations and circumstances have been able to resist from the beginning of time… GRACE.


Grace is so irresistible that even our sin cannot and will not resist it. No situation and circumstances to any individual or group can resist it. From the time of Noah, when he found grace in the sight of God and was spared (with his family)from the flood(only eight (8) people in the whole world were spared) to this time when grace is available to us all… we can enjoy a life different from what we are eligible for. Like the woman in the story, we get far more than we deserve.


We can be healed when we should be sick, rich when we should be poor, strong when we should be weak, laugh when we should cry, hopeful when we should give up and so on because this grace is available to us all and we can now enjoy much more than we deserve… Noting that

Titus 2:11== For God has revealed his grace for the salvation of all people.(GNB)

and

2Cor 8:9====For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Although he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might become rich. (ISV)


Grace is so irresistible and it is enough for us to live a life far beyond our imagination on this side of eternity(heaven on earth).

Don Moen summarized it when he sang "Grace is Enough"


Shalom.