Between God and Me where is Grace to be found?

Between God and Me where is Grace to be found?

A strange comparison when only God can give grace, but to receive it is a profound experience that we either understand or put into practice.  Receiving this one necessary element of God’s precious love without cost has to be a mystery in itself.  Grace, as many have written about it, can become the very touch that we are able to share with others in their most trying times.  Unlike Love which God is, and we cannot emulate in the same manner, grace is not for us to hold unto ourselves as a treasure for self-sustenance.  Like all gifts that the Holy Spirit continues to give us freely the identity doesn’t change because of the type of divine essence it is, the mandate to share with anyone who is in need of it remains the same.  

When we watch a friend or even someone we don’t know that receives a blessing a lot of times it has been given through the prayers of generosity from another.  More often that is grace from God using us as the vehicle and handing on to another. 

“After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.  He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest .  Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.  Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals, and greet no one along the way.  Into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace to this household.  If a peaceful person lives there your peace will rest on him; but if not it will return to you.”  (Lk 10: 1 - 6).  Their peace is a sign of the grace given to them as a manner of reaching those who are receptive.  Our own mission as evangelists have the same instructions through whatever gifts any of us has received.  Giving grace from God to another is divine intervention.  We accomplish this by becoming the giving entities of the same gifts he gives to us.  

“Without cost you have received;  without cost you are to give.”  (Mt 10: 8).

The enormity of grace that is always within reach of us when we are receptive to the endless gifts the Holy Spirit continues to grant us is the very essence of God himself never pulling back on his love for each one of us.  When grace becomes a living entity within our soul the life of God is also living within us.  

Here is where that acceptance of the Trinity makes a permanent impact upon anyone who remains steadfast in the presence of an eternal God.  He waits for our total answer of trust without looking beyond the divine grace that is constantly being passed to our task of evangelizing.

Never forget, we are the hands and voices of God and as Jesus sent 72 disciples out to prepare the visit of Jesus we also are moving in a manner of preparing those who do not know Jesus or don’t understand the gospel.  We become planters of a seed and someone else will nourish the growth within their hearts.

 Ralph B. Hathaway