Healing and recovery by God’s grace.

Healing and the recovery process can be a tough journey. Whether you are going through physical, mental, emotional – or even spiritual – weakness, it is a painful mission.

 

Depending on the grace of God in every aspect of “getting better and stronger” is, for the believer, the only option.  Yet, what a glorious option it is!

 

Paul shared his dealings with weakness in 2 Corinthians 12: 7 – 10.  He wrote: Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

The Lord told Paul that despite his “thorn in the flesh”, God’s grace is sufficient for him. Weaknesses change us into being completely dependent on the mercy, love, grace and sustenance of our Lord.

 

How does God’s grace make the difference in our survival pilgrimage?

 

1, Grace meets our needs because it expresses God’s acceptance and pleasure in us. When we receive his grace, we enjoy the status of favour and approval in God’s eyes. Grace means that God loves us and is favourably inclined towards us; we hold on to the Lord’s promise of care, always.

 

2. Grace meets our needs because it is available all the time. Since grace is given freely to us in Jesus, it is not taken away when we stumble.  When we come to God by faith, through the blood of Jesus his grace is ever ready to meet and minister to our insufficiencies and struggles.

 

3. Grace meets our needs, because it is the very strength of God made available to us. God’s grace and mercy is neither weakness nor the tolerance of impurity.  Instead, it is the power of God to grant us what we lack in every circumstance.

 

To trust in God, believing in his grace, enables us to become true vessels of his love, and as such, of his power again!

Healing and recovery received by the grace of God, is true regaining of God’s plan and purpose for me.  When I confess my dependence on God to the Lord, his merciful, strengthening and loving grace grant me real help within my vulnerable situation.

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness”, says our Lord.