As today, is the first Sunday in the first month of a new year, I am looking forward to 2021. By faith, I am praying that God declares this to be a season of More Amazing Grace for his sons and daughters despite the greater challenges facing this country and the world. The Word of God is teaching us that regardless of the appearance of our external circumstances we should not be anxious but by prayer and supplications with thanksgiving we are to make our requests known unto God.
With thanksgiving, my petition is that this period will commence the season of More Amazing Grace (God’s unmerited favor of love towards us). Not because we earned it. Not because we deserved it. But simply because He wants to bless us in furtherance of His purpose to share the gospel as His ambassadors in areas where he has called us to serve. Grace is our spiritual hook-up (i.e., we didn’t pay for it but Jesus did). It gives us the power to embrace our weaknesses (e.g., in our sickness, in our poverty, in our socio-economical, physical and educational restraints) and fully know that in all of that His Grace remains sufficient and satisfies us such that we become whole.
The Word is encouraging us to comprehend that the sons and daughters of the Most High God are not to be dominated by FEAR (false evidence appearing real). We have a new awakening in our spirits (we woke now) and know that because of the Great Conjunction (the Triune God working in our lives) we are fully persuaded that with God nothing shall be impossible. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Hallelujah.
The verses of St. John 1:1 – 14 are in focus today. The Apostle John, the beloved disciple, expands our spiritual awareness of Jesus and takes a different track by approaching the genealogy of Jesus not in the concept of time but in the reality of eternity.
He teaches us that before there was ever a beginning the Triune God already existed and specifically points us to the existence of Jesus, the Son of God, as the Pre-Incarnate Word (which in the Greek is rendered as Logos).
In our spiritual minds, we need a greater comprehension that our Triune God is ahead of time. And because the Triune God is ahead of time, the sons and daughters of God should be ahead of time. We should not be late for anything and nothing should come as a surprise to us in this year of there years to come. In St. John 16:13, John recorded Jesus as saying this: “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will shew you things to come.” In other words, the Holy Ghost will show us the unseen truth before it become a manifested reality. Are we ready to handle the truth in a season of More Amazing Grace?
The truth in this season points us to the Pre-Incarnate Logos and anchors us in the knowledge that He (Jesus the Christ) was with God and was God, and that all things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made. The reason why nothing shall be impossible for us is because everything we see, we hear, we touch, we know was made out of nothing by Him. Hebrews 11:3 reflects that through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which appear.
Accordingly, the reality of nothing is not an issue for God. God can work with nothing. And because we can see the miracles in the fruits of His creation in the beginning through this present age, which were formed out of nothing, we know that he can do exceeding, abundantly beyond what we ask or think according to that Holy Ghost power working in us. Don’t worry about what you don’t have. God can work with that. As the birth of Jesus was natural but His conception supernatural, it is a reminder that Our God calls forth those things that be not though they were.
In closing, I was reminded that the promise of God as proclaimed by the Word is not bound by death even when the facts accurately reflect that death is present. However, 2021 will be the season of More Amazing Grace for the children of God by faith (2 plus 0 plus 2 plus 1 equal 5, which is the number of grace). Death and dead situations shall not dominate us. We can embrace death and in the face of death (whatever that situation is that in your mind factually appears to be the end), and declare that with God nothing shall be impossible. Our God, who quickens the dead (even as He did with His Son, Jesus Christ), is calling forth those things that be not as though they were. Against hope, we shall believe in hope and shall stagger not at the promise of God. We have the promise of More Amazing Grace!