God's All Sufficient Grace

2 Corinthians 12:9 

"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength

is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather

glory in my infirmities, that the power of

Christ may rest upon me."

     Paul prayed that it might be taken from him, but God answered that prayer as he answers so many prayers he did not take the thing away but gave Paul strength to bear it. That is how God works. He does not spare us things, but makes us able to conquer them. Paul experienced the promise and the reality of the all sufficient grace. Now let us see from his life some of the things from which that grace was sufficient.

    It was sufficient for his physical weariness. It made him able to go on. It was sufficient for physical pain. it made him able to bear the cruel stake. It was sufficient for opposition. All his life Paul was up against it and all his life he never gave in. No amount of opposition could break him or make him turn back. That was the work of God's all sufficient grace. 

    My friends, there is nothing so hard to face as misinterpretation and cruel misjudgment. God's all sufficient grace should make us not care what other people may think about us and what we are, but be what God knows us to be. It is the glory of the gospel that in our weakness we may find this wondrous grace, for always man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Amen!

Reading: (2 Cor. 12:1-12)

Ref: (HG SB; DSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry