2 Peter 1:2 ‘Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.’
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Richard Marvin DeVos was an American billionaire who co-founded the Amway corporation and owned the Orlando Magic basketball team. Richard was an outspoken Christian whose faith became sorely tested in 1997 after he suffered 2 strokes. At 71 years old, Devos began slowly dying because his weakened heart was working at only about 10 percent of its capacity.
His doctors urgently recommended a heart transplant but no heart donor could be found in America. When he was taken to the UK, there he faced strict hurdles; According to the law, he could only receive a heart if no citizen of the United Kingdom needed it. Also the heart had to match his rare blood type and the heart had to have a large right ventricle to match his enlarged heart.
With all these stiff conditions, it looked impossible to get a donor in time and it seemed death was inevitable. Being a man of faith, Devos looked to God to make a way. Only weeks later, a miracle took place. A young woman with an enlarged heart came for a transplant, no one else needed her heart and it marched Devos’ rare blood type.
The heart transplant was successful. Devos recovered fully, regained his strength and lived an extra 21 years.
Before his death at 92 years old, wherever he went he refused to be introduced by his wealth or achievements but rather chose to present himself as a sinner saved by God’s grace.
Though he was a billionaire, Richard Devos came to the point where he realized his money or human connections couldn’t help him, except God’s grace.
Indeed the grace of God is a vital mystery for surviving and thriving on the earth.
Grace makes the difference between life and death, success and failure, growth and redundancy. The place of grace has no substitute in our race in life. Grace is the divine solution to life’s impossibilities and difficulties. No matter the resources at our disposal, there is a limit to what we can do as human beings. When we face mountains we cannot climb and rivers we cannot cross, it takes grace to make a way for us.
The word “grace” means “undeserved kindness, mercy, favor, and help when you need it.” No man can go far in life except he has access to divine help. We are all upheld by God’s grace and any day God withdraws His hand we will crash into disgrace. This is why we must continually acknowledge the hand of God in our affairs and praise Him. Our true measure of fulfillment and success in life is according to the level of grace at work in us.
It is therefore necessary that we commit ourselves to seek to know God through study of His Word and prayers so that His grace and peace will be multiplied in our lives. 2 Peter 1:2 says ‘Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.’
Today, as we commit ourselves to diligently seeking God, certainly we will never be stranded. God’s unmerited favor and goodness will smoothen our paths and cause us to keep breaking forth to glorious dimensions.
PRAYER: Lord, please grant me the grace to seek deeper knowledge of You through spending more time in Your Word and prayers. I thank You for filling my life with Your inexplicable miracle, signs and wonders in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
“The truth of God’s Word in the life of a believer is always reflective, the results can never be hidden.” – WORDBITE 222.
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