Jesus Christ - Full of Grace & Full of Truth!!

Dearest Lord Jesus, 

How precious you are - He who finds you has truly found a pearl of great price. What a privilege it is to know you and enjoy a living relationship with you. You left the glory of heaven and came to this earth and took upon yourself our frail human nature. You lived a perfect and sinless life through the power of the Holy Spirit. You died on the cross to redeem us from the power of sin and took upon yourself, the punishment on account of our sin. You rose from the dead on the third day so as to enable us to rise with you in the newness of life. In your death, you also crucified our old sinful selves that we may reckon ourselves as dead to sin and alive to God. You O Christ are full of Grace and full of truth. As we gaze upon you, we see the truth about ourselves - our own depraved human nature, our inclinations to sin that so easily clings to us. We see our lack of desire for God and a tendency to set our minds on earthly things. We see the workings of sin deep within our hearts - pride, envy, unforgiveness, dishonesty and feelings of ill-will towards our fellowmen. In the light of this truth about our sin, we also see revealed in you, the truth about God - He who alone dwells in unapproachable light, the Holy & Just One, but also He who is abounding with love & tender mercy towards us. Lord, when we see the truth about God's fiery holiness, we feel undone, unworthy, incapable & incapacitated to be and do a thing that pleases Him. But Oh thank you Lord, for you are also full of grace and in your fullness we have received grace upon grace. Sin may have sunk deep within us, but your grace goes deeper still. It is the workings of grace that kill sin in us. It is the workings of grace that we are delivered from the power of sin. It is the workings of grace that enable us to mortify that lust, that unforgiving spirit, that bitterness, that envy that took hold of us, that pride which kept us in bondage. It is the workings of grace through the Spirit that works in us bringing about Christ-like character, daily transforming us into the very likeness of God himself. Your grace reinstates us back to the very purpose for which we were created, to love God and glorify Him for all eternity. Your grace brings in us an insatiable hunger for God & fullness and equips us to fulfill the ministry that God has for us. We thank you O Lord for your incredible grace. Keep us from  the indulgence or involvement in those things that weaken the influence of your grace in our life. May our hearts always be like a sponge receiving your grace and letting it soften us to the things of God. May your grace enable us to set our minds on the things above and always remind us that we are sojourners in this world. May your grace uproot all love for the world and it's lusts and keep it from enticing us towards the evils of sin. May your grace keep us content with our earthly lot that God has in His mercy allotted to us for the time of our sojourn. Finally, may your grace work in us a deep longing for the coming of our Lord, a holy desire to be with Him and spend all eternity worshipping the Lamb - to the Glory of God. Amen!!

The Father's Great Love!

 Dearest Father in Heaven, how great is your love for us. A river that never ceases to overflow and overwhelm us. Your love O Lord is precious, desirable and full of glory. In the boundless ocean of your great Love, your infinite goodness towards us is revealed. In your great Love, you keep no account of our wrongs, but are always showing mercy and forgiving our shortcomings. In your great Love, you cause your face to shine upon us and pour on us thy favour which we scarcly deserve. O what great Love in sending your only Son to die on a cross and pay the penalty of our sin and thus bring us back to you even while we were still sinnners and against you. In love you raised Him from the dead & seated Him at your right hand.  In your great Love, you sent your Spirit to dwell in our hearts to make pure the polluted fountain of sin that runs within us. In your great Love, you impart your very nature to us thereby transforming us daily to become more like your Son Jesus. In your great Love, you provide for our earthly needs and keep us from the plans of the wicked one. In your great Love, you do not let sickness do us any harm, but in your sovereign will cause it to serve your holy purposes & use it for our good. Lord, may we live in the sunshine of your Love all the days of our life. May your Love inspire all thoughts, words and our actions towards our fellowmen. O this great Love of the Father which is only a foretaste of what we will experience in glory when the full blast of his Eternal Love will for all eternity never cease to keep our souls ablaze with unending Praise & Worship to our God. O precious Saviour, may this great Love stir our longing for heaven and cause us to recognize that our existence in the sphere of time is only temporal and that the love of this world is unprofitable & unhealthy for souls and detrimental to our eternal destiny. O let your Love be the anchor of our souls in time of our earthly sojourn & may your Love keep us every moment abiding in You that we may bear much fruit for Your Glory Amen!!