"In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you," 2 Corinthians 6:2.
Thus sayeth the Lord: Do not receive the grace of God in vain. What did this favorable time look like to God's servants? They presented his grace to us through: Great endurance. Afflictions. Hardships. Calamities. Beatings. Imprisonments. Riots. Labors. Sleepless nights. Hunger. They presented with: Purity. Knowledge. Patience. Kindness. The Holy Spirit. Genuine love. They pursued through: Truthful speech. Power of God. Honor. Dishonor. Slander. Praise. Treated as posers (while yet true). Unknown (while well known). Dying (while yet living). Punished (while not killed). Sorrowful (while yet rejoicing). Poor (while enriching us). Having nothing (while owning everything). The free message of God's grace did not come to us cheaply.
With a brother or sister today we receive God's grace freely. And we yield deliberately to God's peaceful reign in our hearts. And liberated, together, we give thanks. Sky kingdom.
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