Grace Thoughts

  Power unmeasured and beauty untold; Infinite wisdom and grace. Do you not know? And have you not heard? The Almighty God died in our place. •   •   • He sat enthroned in Heaven above; He called all the stars by name. Yet in wondrous meekness and powerful love, To the world He created, He came. •   •   • Hidden in darkness in Mary's womb, He was holding the world by His might. Born to give life through death and the tomb, To the darkness He came as the Light. •   •   • The Alpha and Omega; the Beginning and End; The Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings. Born in a stable as the Lamb of God, This was Jesus the King of kings. •   •   • The Sovereign Ruler---the Creator of all The God who is mighty to save, Came to the shepherds with good news of great joy, For Jesus came to earth to conquer the grave. •   •   • Glorious majesty! Wrapped in wondrous humility! In the manger,...

Imagine the beauty of a newborn world clothed with the joy of Heaven and bathed in the light of God, suddenly replaced by a hideous deception. The woman and the man turned from God to their own way and the tapestry of love was ripped to pieces as humans replaced the wisdom of God for the lies of his enemy. God had warned them that if they disobeyed, they would be trading  in life for death. The words sunk in deep as Eve held the lifeless, broken body of her son Abel in her arms. She remembered standing before the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and reaching out to take of its forbidden fruit. The scene must have flashed before her eyes when she ate of the fruit and handed it to her husband Adam. They stood together next to that tree guilty and filled with shame and fear. As Eve gazed down at her murdered son, the weight of her choice bore down on her soul. A darkness closed in that threatened to swallow her up, yet hope pierced the darkness with a beam of light. The l...