Friday, November 04, 2016

Growing in Grace

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Growing in grace is not what we do
If that’s your stance it’s a Pharisaical view,
Growing in grace is God’s work in us
As He conforms us to the image of Jesus.

We are saved by grace through faith
Then God places us on His conforming lathe
And with meticulous and patient care
He fashions us through His word and prayer.

Grace is God’s blessing that none deserved
In grace we grow by reading His word
And the willingness to be like His Holy Son
Propels us to walk as children of the kingdom.

As God’s holy word in us richly dwells
Jesus’ light in us the darkness dispels
And growing in grace we strive to excel
With fervency such a word to others tell.
 
Growing in grace is not about being proud
It’s not apparent in the bombastic and loud,
Often it stems the majority and the crowd
As one stands for truth as Christians avow.
 
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In each believer’s life as he daily grows
Grace enacts in him the word that he knows
So that the sanctified life is not just form
But the reality of the Spirit in the one reborn.

Often we pray earnestly for more grace
As if our supply has gone without trace
Forgetting grace never increases or decreases
But that grace to us God infinitely releases.

So that to grow in grace is not more grace
But to walk in God’s word pace after pace
Having our feet shod with the Gospel of peace
Spreading the Gospel north, west, south and east.

That God gave His Son is an undeniable fact
How much more grace is possible than that?
Grace, God’s unmerited favour to you and me
Expressed in Jesus there at Mount Calvary.

To grow in knowledge is in review of such grace
That the sinless one died in the sinner’s place,
The wrath of the Father fully visited on His Son
That the vilest sinner can to the Saviour be won.

Growing in grace is an appreciation for all this
A thought that no born again believer should miss
Grace so undeserving, so full and so free
That rescues a penitent sinner from hell’s reality.

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The Scriptures contain all the knowledge we need
To walk in righteousness and godly lives lead
God’s grace having appeared to each and every man
Telling all and sundry of His redemptive plan.

God’s grace the initiation of priceless salvation
Growing in grace the evidence of our sanctification,
Assured grace a focus on the promised glorification
Transforming grace the deposit of our redemption.

Growing in grace is nothing that we do
I am sure your stance is not that Pharisaical view,
Growing in grace is God’s continued work in us
As he purposes to conform us to the image of Jesus.

Stewart Russell © 2016

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