I have been reflecting on my life. Thinking of the many times in my life when I got something I didn’t deserve.

When I have made mistakes.

I can go through the littany of things I have done, but that is not the focus. The focus is the graciousness.

I have said some things I shouldn’t have. People have made the funny face, then smiled. I used to not pick up on that, I have been noticing it lately, I have been noticing the grace.

It is through the grace I have been trained by pastors, it is through the grace I have been promoted above my peers.

I think about the grace that covers, the grace that covers our sin and allows us to fellowship win a God who cannot accompany himself with sin. He applies grace through sacrifice, the sacrifice of His Son. It is through the acknowledgement of this sacrifice that we receive the grace that has been afforded us, allowing the opportunity to fellowship with our God, a gracious God.

This leads me back, to my interaction with others. The graciousness I have been shown. If you have been gracious to me, thank you. It has been through this graciousness, that shown by you, that has alloowed me to grow more and more in my relationship with God.

The bible talks of us being beacons, cities on a hill, living examples of God’s love. It is through the graciousness that others who are watching will know Him, or want to know Him.