Have you ever tried to count the stars in the sky? I remember being younger and trying to count them, not all the stars just the ones in the big dipper. Can you see that in your mind’s eye?
It seems measureless.
What about a bucket of sand? Can you count the grains that fill the bucket? How long would do you think it would take just to count what’s in one small bucket?
Measureless?
Now, consider all the stars in all the galaxies or all the sand on all the seashores. That would truly be measureless in our lifetime. What I want you to grasp is a concept of measureless.
Measureless!
That’s what I’m dealing with this morning, the idea of measureless.
You see, I was reading in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians and he used a term that stopped me in my tracks. He said that the Father wants to show “the measureless richness of His grace in kindness toward us who are in the Messiah”.
“But God was rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us. 5 Even when we were dead in our trespasses, He made us alive together with Messiah. (By grace you have been saved!) 6 And He raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Messiah Yeshua— 7 to show in the olam ha-ba (future) the measureless richness of His grace in kindness toward us in Messiah Yeshua.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not from yourselves—it is the gift of God. 9 It is not based on deeds, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship—created in Messiah Yeshua for good deeds, which God prepared beforehand so we might walk in them.” Ephesians 2:4-10 TLV
Measureless…the richness of God’s grace is measureless.
Religion tries to tell us that God’s grace is limited. That if we do too many things wrong, we’ve lost out. God’s grace and forgiveness will be withheld. We will no longer be worthy of acceptance.
Let me make this clear. We were never worthy of God’s grace, acceptance, forgiveness or love. God chose to love us unconditionally and His grace was an outpouring of that love. Jesus died to show just how great the grace of God is.
He, Jesus, who never sinned took the penalty of sin, death, for all of us and made the way for us to experience God’s amazing grace.
Measureless grace!
Since we have become the recipients of such measureless grace we are instructed to be gracious to those we know who are less than perfect. We give grace because we have received grace.
How many times did you experience the Father’s grace and kindness yesterday? It’s measureless!
Begin sharing that same grace with others.