For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 (NIV)
There is 2 popular beliefs when it comes to the things of God. Those
two beliefs are grace and faith. Many believe in one or the other, but
often they do not see how these two beliefs need to work together.
Many people believe in the grace of God. They believe that God has
provided wonderful gifts. They believe that He has given those blessings
out for us to receive. However, if they only believe in the grace of
God and not faith, there is no clear understanding on how to get those
blessings to flow into your life.
Then there are those who believe in faith. They have grasped the
understanding that it’s impossible to receive anything from God without
mixing faith. Those that have a strong emphasis on faith alone can error
on feeling that they need to get God to do something for them that He
hasn’t done. It can be a very tiring a discouraging thing if your trying
to get God to move.
However, this verse says that it takes grace and faith working
together for us to receive from God. Grace is something that is freely
given by God. It cannot be earned. It is a gift. Faith is what we do to
step out and believe what has already been given freely by grace. Faith
cannot get God to do something He hasn’t done yet. It simply reaches out
and receives what has already been provided by grace.
Today, find a scripture of a promise that God has already done and
then use that verse to step out and believe it in faith. This is how you
get grace and faith working together.
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