God's Offer of "Grace Upon Grace"

14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth……¹⁶From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.(John 1)

Yesterday I talked about the generous character of God. 

Today I am thinking of the verse: From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.(John 1)

The Greek word for grace is: charis:  “Proof of favor; benefit, gift.” (page 1298-1307)

So if we receive grace upon grace from God’ we are “proof of (his) favor.” We benefit from God’s gracious character.
  

God’s gracious character means: “To be forgiving, to  cover, to wash away, expiation (to be restored), to be merciful, to be patient.”  That is the Greek meaning of gracious. (p. 362)

I invite you to consider the extraordinarily, amazing, all-encompassing care that God offers to even the most despicable of persons.   And that includes you and me.

The word is again generosity.  

                                  The offer of abundance.  

                                                      More than enough.

I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.(John 10:10)

God’s grace is the treasure that all of us — all of us — dream of.

Unless you are completely opposite, of every other human  being, you grave 
grace — mercy, forgiveness, unconditional, loving, acceptance.

That my friends is what God, in Jesus’ skin, came to give all people.

And the sad thing is, most people don’t believe it.