Only By His Grace!

“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”

Genesis 6:8

 

Have you, like Noah, found grace in the eyes of the Lord?

You see it is only through His grace that we are saved and our lives are redeemed from destruction.

It is only through grace that we are set free from the bondage of sin.

It is only through grace that the sanctifying work of His Spirit is applied in our lives.

It is only through grace that we are called, commissioned and equipped.

The first part of verse one in Psalm 127 says this:

“Unless the Lord builds the house,
    its builders labor in vain…”

God’s grace builds the house that lasts and the ministry that endures.

Anything built in our own effort is built in vain.

Noah knew that lesson well.

He spent 120 years obediently building an ark.

It wasn’t because he was a skilled prognosticator on the culture of the day – it was because he found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 

It wasn’t because he borrowed “Shipbuilders for Dummies” from his local library – instead he found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

And it certainly wasn’t from others coming alongside him to offer encouragement – rather he found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 

So too, the call of God in your life will never be fulfilled because you shrewdly see the future, or have the skills within yourself necessary to accomplish it or that you  belong to a club whose only task is to encourage you!

You will only fulfill the call God has for you through His grace!

How about it then?

The same Lord who graced Noah has called you to a task that can only be accomplished by and in His grace.

Are you willing to believe Him and trust His grace to work in you?