GOD’S GRACE DOES NOT EXIST IN SIZES NEITHER CAN WE INFLUENCE IT

Rev Michael Benson Ajayi

GOD’S GRACE DOES NOT EXIST IN SIZES NEITHER CAN WE INFLUENCE IT

 Matt 20:12 KJV ” Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day”.

              A lot of people are of the notion that God has favorites among His children upon whom He has bequeathed special gifting or grace than others and as a result their lives are to be considered as good enough standards b which success is to be measured by lesser mortals. What this does is the systematic indoctrination and manipulation of God’s people by these so-called “chiefest” apostles ( 2Cor.11:5) as exhibited by apostle Peter who was the first general overseer of the church of Christ ;he was for a moment friendly with the non- Jewish Christian congregation who were traditionally considered as unclean and as outcasts by the religious Jewish Christians. In the absence of his fellow Jews, Peter freely ate with these non Jews but whenever he was amongst his tribesmen he treated these non- Jews as outcasts and inferior to the chagrin of apostle Paul who was quick to reprimand him for his hypocritical and unchristian behavior  ( Gal2:11-14)

          Apostle Paul wasn’t among the first twelve disciples, yet he was used in the most extra ordinary manner by God so much so that he wrote more epistles than all the other disciples combined. He attributed this feat to the grace of God that was upon all. The only difference was that he worked harder than the other disciples. He wrote in 1 Cor 15:9-11 NKJV  “For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.  Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.”     Therefore, it is the same grace that has been administered to all of God’s people but different outcome depending on the persons’ willingness to put this grace to work. Faith without work is dead. Grace does not exclude one from hard work yet it is the same grace that’s given to all. It is like ‘Time management’, we all have 24 hours given to us but what we make out of our time will determine our future outcome.  

                              

      The parable in Matthew 20: 1-16 shows us that it is impossible to influence God’s benevolence or grace. We have all come short of God’s rating and regardless of our individual achievements, we need God’s grace and it is equally given. Nobody has more than any another. Regardless of our talents and individual achievements, it is important to know that we complement each other; therefore, there is no need for comparison. The more we humble ourselves to learn from Jesus’ word, the more we discover new dimensions of His grace (James4:6). May His grace manifest  great things in your life. 

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