Grace For When You Need Help

Do you know anybody who needs a miracle?

We often associate miracles with something that is unusual or extraordinary. But many miracles that we seek relate to everyday problems that are so big that only God can solve them. At great moments of need we seek a God who makes a way out of no way.

In our faith journey, we face tests that create an ongoing expectation of God's inexhaustible supply. Eventually, these tests allow us to recognize a powerful connection between God's grace and the wonderful plans that He has for our lives.

God always has a purpose for blessing His people. Where sin increases, grace increases all the more: God blesses His Church with all of our faults because He has a purpose of setting the whole world free from the built-in tyranny of sin.

Because God has practical purposes for blessing His people, we should never forget how useful it is to ask for His help with everything that we need. If God didn't spare His own Son, then we should not consider anything to be too much to ask of God.

As we enjoy a harvest of God's blessings and protection, we also must not forget that this harvest is nothing that we deserve. Instead, each victory that we experience is a vital reminder that God has tremendous purposes for our lives.

On the other hand, doing God's business sometimes puts us in the middle of the worst situations, and that still doesn't separate us from the love of Christ! In fact, one can learn even more profound aspects of God's grace at times when nothing seems to go well, or when one is in a situation that seems uncontrollable.

Adversity shakes apart our illusions of self-reliance and entitlement, focusing us instead upon the various dimensions of our reality. Once we come to recognize the impartial indifference that surrounds us throughout creation, one no longer takes for granted the initiative that God takes in establishing relationship with us.

This initiative is fulfilled in God's offer of salvation through our faith in the Messiah. God values Christ's relationship with us through blessing us. Our struggles demonstrate that in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

So what about your struggle? Do you seek God's help with an insurmountable problem?

If so, then give God the glory through your adversity. Nothing can separate you from God's love--not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future, and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate you from God's love for you in Christ Jesus our Lord!